Alone Together Author:Elena Bonner That ALONE TOGETHER was even written is extraordinary. In late 1985 Elena Bonner, wife of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, suddenly received from Soviet authorities a three-month visa (later extended to six) to visit her family in the United States and be treated for heart, eye and leg aliments. While recuperating from multiple bypa... more »ss surgery in Newton, Massachusetts, she decided to write an account from her perspective in America of what has happened to Sakharov and herself during their past three years of involuntary exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. The result is the full, uncensored story of the Orwellian existence that Sakharov and Bonner are forced to endure.« less