Monster: Oil on Canvas (Leaplit) - Softcover

Zlotsky, Dmitry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193524809X ISBN 13: 9781935248095

Publisher: Leapfrog Press, 2010

Synopsis

"Marvelously original. . . . Zlotsky has done for conjoined twins what Günter Grass did for midgets in The Tin Drum. . . . A weirdly hilarious Russian fairytale composed with the comedic zeal of Gogol and the rhetorical brilliance of Nabokov."--Lee Siegel, author of Love in a Dead Language

"Pure joy in language. . . . Nabokov's Pale Fire mated with Finnegan's Wake." --Michael Drout, PhD, language scholar

Meet Alex and Alex, as compelling a Russian portrait as the two sides of Raskolnikov. He is--or they are--a dark-caped anti-hero, conjoined twins stalking, counterfeiting, fleeing the iron curtain, delightfully innocent, seeking what everyone seeks: love, hope, and redemption.

About this title

About the Author

Dmitry Zlotsky was born in 1960, in Moscow. Having graduated from college, he began working as a research scientist. In 1989 his Boeing-built "Santa Maria" landed in New York. He lives in New Jersey where he spends his spare time inventing puzzles and writing poetry in Russian and prose in English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leapfrog Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193524809X
• ISBN 13: 9781935248095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356