Madonna from Russia
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Author
Contributions
- Thomas Moore (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
2006-11-15 - Dufour Editions
Language
English
Word Count
54,750 words, Guess
Page Count
219 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10534431M
- ISBN-139780720612554
- ISBN-100720612551
- OCLC Control Number57576169
- OCLC Control Numbermadonnafromrussi0000druz
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007271436
- LibraryThing2830737
- Goodreads2798681
Classifications
- LCCPG3479.6.R9 S8713 2006
Description
"Lily was a beautiful young prostitute recruited by the Bolsheviks to service the Communist elite. As a result of a fortuitous marriage to Andrei Bourbon, famous poet, Futurist and artistic associate of Malevich and Mayakovsky, her own verse is delivered to the official Communist newspapers, together with an entirely invented revolutionary biography. Before long, she is made poet laureate and feted as an idealized symbol of the Soviet era, while Andrei, after being incarcerated in a mental hospital by Lily, disappears in the purges.". "After the collapse of several marriages - and the Soviet Union - she leaves Russia for the United States. This is where we meet her, still striking-looking and engaged to a naive American, starting out again at the age of ninety-six. Following further bizarre and picaresque adventures, she reaches for her greatest honour yet: to be 'Queen Lily the First' of the newly created island state of Grande Bravo."--BOOK JACKET.
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