{"product_id":"mayakovsky-tapes-hardcover","title":"The Mayakovsky Tapes - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Littell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eROBERT LITTELL is the author of eighteen previous novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eA Nasty Piece of Work\u003c\/i\u003e and the nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eFor the Future of Israel, \u003c\/i\u003e written with Shimon Peres, former president of Israel. He has been awarded both the English Gold Dagger and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for his fiction. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Company\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and was adapted into a television miniseries, and his novel \u003ci\u003eLegends \u003c\/i\u003ehas been adapted into a television series. He lives in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42443526406279,"sku":"9781250100566","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/96eee011ccf5067b042eebb692dc20fb.webp?v=1741766768","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/mayakovsky-tapes-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}