title: The Russian Interpreter
author:  Michael Frayn 
description: Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the <i>Guardian</i> and the <i>Observer</i>. His novels include <i>Towards the End of the Morning</i>, <i>Headlong, Spies</i> and <i>Skios</i>. His seventeen plays range from <i>Noises Off</i>, recently chosen as one of the nation's three favourite plays, to <i>Copenhagen</i>, which won the 1998 <i>Evening Standard </i>Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
zlib_text: _Also available by the same author_
  
  The Tin Men
  
  The Russian Interpreter
  
  A Very Private Life
  
  Sweet Dreams
  
  Matchbox Theatre
  
  Towards the End of the Morning
  
  MICHAEL FRAYN
  
    
    
    
  
  VALANCOURT BOOKS
  
   _Towards the End of the Morning_ by Michael Frayn
  
  First published in Great Britain by Collins in 1967
  
  First published in the U.S. (as _Against Entropy_ ) by Viking Press in 1967
  
  First Valancourt Books edition 2015
  
    
  
  Copyright © 1967 by Michael Frayn
  
  Introduction copyright © 2000 by Michael Frayn
  
    
  
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