Madonna from Russia

by Yuri Druzhnikov and  

The picaresque story of 96-year-old Lily Bourbon, who marries her way from prostitute to Poet Laureate in the USSR and finds a new life in the U.S.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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0720612551
• ISBN13: 9780720612554
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"