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OverviewMoscow, March 1953: As Stalin breathes his last, four women meet in Room 408 of the luxurious hotel Metropol. They have gathred to reminisce about the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose work they once inspired. Following his mysterious suicide twenty-five years earlier, he was canonised by Stalin - but in life he was a far more complicated man, violently torn between art and politics. As his muses piece together their conflicting memories of the man, a portrait of the artist as a tormented young idealist emerges, revealing him as a sexual obsessive caught in the eye of history's storm, struggling to hold on to his ideals in the face of a revolution betrayed. In Vladimir M., Robert Littell creates a provocative cocktail of fiction and reality, bringing to life the tumultuous Stalinist era and the disaster it spelt for the artists it ensnared. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert LittellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Duckworth Overlook Weight: 0.244kg ISBN: 9780715652664ISBN 10: 0715652664 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 25 January 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews`A vivid portrait ... rich in dark imagery and razor-sharp dialogue' * Kirkus * `A complex but rewarding novel' * Publishers Weekly * A ribald, gossipy novel' * Wall Street Journal * `Ambitious and tumultuous... Robert Littell signs a homage that is vibrant and sensual, where creative excesses existed alongside human genius' * Lundi Library (France) * Author InformationROBERT LITTELL is the author of more than a dozen novels, including A Nasty Piece of Work, Legends, the Stalin Epigram and Young Philby, all published by Duckworth. He has been awarded the CWA Gold Dagger and the LA Times Book Prize, and his novel The Company was a New York Times bestseller. Both The Company and Legends have been adapted for television. He lives in Paris. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |