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Title: My Apprenticeship by Maxim Gorky, Margaret Wettlin, Maksim Gorky ISBN: 0-89875-117-9 Publisher: University Press of the Pacific Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Classic
Comment: Gorky's 2nd book of triology is every bit as good as the first. Russia's favorite Russian writer.

Rating: 4
Summary: Gorky Means Bitter
Comment: The second part of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy takes him out of childhood and into his early teens. He develops into a headstrong, tough and intelligent boy. The difficult relationship with his Grandfather in the first book develops in amusing and shocking ways, while the influence exerted over him by his Grandmother also changes - but I don't want to give too much away!

What is most remarkable about My Apprenticeship, I think, apart from the humour and beauty of Gorky's rugged prose, is that the dilemmas faced by Gorky, growing up in poverty, and the dilemmas of those around him, are quite inseperable from the dilemmas facing people today (or at least, facing me), both existential and material. A remarkable passage towards the end of the book rises towards a magesterial outburst from the older writer, in which he explains why he is outlining in such graphic terms the hardship of life, that can force people to acts of such desperate barbarity. His duty it seems, is to make people aware of what is around them, to strip away the illusions that we willingly blind ourselves with, to protect ourselves from uncomfortable truths. In the age of Brass Eye vs tabloid truth-bending, this could not be more topical.

A gripping read on every level. It loses a star, I think, in comparison to the first installment. My Apprenticeship meanders a little, but the characters are as unforgettable.

P.S. Some trilogy's can be read out of order. This one can't.