Untitled Stone Barrington #63

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in THE IDIOT to portray a man of pure innocence.

In these nine tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. "Brisk, ironic...scalpel-sharp."