{"product_id":"9781250100566","title":"The 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029432221936,"sku":"9781250100566","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250100566_p0.jpg?v=1763702647","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250100566","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}