Shostakovich A Life

"No one has done more to challenge the cases for Volkov than Fay. As early as 1980, when she was a relatively unknown recent graduate student, Fay charged in a review article that Volkov had lifted large parts of his supposedly interview-based volume from already published articles by Shostakovich. Ever since then, Volkov's defenders--though only rarely Volkov himself--have fought to exonerate the book from Fay's charges and, even more significantly, from the implication that Testimony was in some important sense an unbelievable account, perhaps published more for political than musicological reasons."Fay, Laurel is the author of 'Shostakovich A Life', published 2005 under ISBN 9780195182514 and ISBN 0195182510.