Mayakovsky Tapes

by Robert Littell

Book Overview

In 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.

The 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250100569
• ISBN13: 9781250100566
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"