{"product_id":"limonov-the-outrageous-adventures-9781250074836","title":"Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is how Emmanuel Carr re, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: \"Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire's butler in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in Paris; a lost soldier in the Balkans; and now, in the fantastic shambles of postcommunism, the elderly but charismatic leader of a party of young desperadoes. He sees himself as a hero; you might call him a scumbag: I suspend my judgment on the matter. It's a dangerous life, an ambiguous life: a real adventure novel. It is also, I believe, a life that says something. Not just about him, Limonov, not just about Russia, but about all our history since the end of the Second World War.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Eduard Limonov isn't fictional-but he might as well be. This pseudobiography isn't a novel, but it reads like one: from Limonov's grim childhood to his desperate, comical, ultimately successful attempts to gain the respect of Russia's literary intellectual elite; to his immigration to New York, then to Paris; to his return to the motherland. \u003ci\u003eLimonov\u003c\/i\u003e could be read as a charming picaresque. But it could also be read as a troubling counternarrative of the second half of the twentieth century, one that reveals a violence, an anarchy, a brutality, that the stories we tell ourselves about progress tend to conceal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250074836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/10\/2016 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Emmanuel Carrere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648563245212,"sku":"9781250074836","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ad8e57ae-21ca-4cc0-a6d8-89f5d371070a.jpg?v=1603870390","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/limonov-the-outrageous-adventures-9781250074836","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}