{"product_id":"a-dead-mans-memoir-a-theatrical-novel-penguin-classics-9780140455144","title":"A Dead Mans Memoir A Theatrical Novel Penguin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Best known for \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A \u003ci\u003eDead Man's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is gentle in tone if fierce in substance.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bulgakov is the first magical realist.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Craig Raine, author of \u003ci\u003eT.S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732382036311,"sku":"9780140455144","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140455144.jpg?v=1719996635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-dead-mans-memoir-a-theatrical-novel-penguin-classics-9780140455144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}