{"product_id":"mayakovsky-tapes-9781250100566","title":"Mayakovsky Tapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ladies, each of whom could claim to have been a muse to the poet, loved or loathed Mayakovsky in the course of his life, and as they piece together their conflicting memories of him, a portrait of the artist as a young idealist emerges. From his early years as a leader of the Futurist movement to his work as a propagandist for the Revolution and on to the censorship battles that turned him against the state (and, more ominously, the state against him), their recollections reveal Mayakovsky as a passionate, complex, sexually obsessed creature trapped in the epicenter of history, struggling to hold onto his ideals in the face of a revolution betrayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Robert Littell, whom \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003ecalled \"one of the most talented, most original voices in American fiction today, period,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Mayakovsky Tapes\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious, impressive novel that brings to life the tumultuous Stalinist era and the predicament of the artists ensnared in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250100566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2016 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/19\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2016 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Robert Littell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924753780917,"sku":"9781250100566","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ae9502d9-397b-42a9-a5eb-27d69ef72b9a.jpg?v=1687837488","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mayakovsky-tapes-9781250100566","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}