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"Addendum to a Photo Album" is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife Annushka, and his many sons all born with sideburns, the novel details their fraught relationships, particularly when sitting for family photographs. Vladislav Otroshenko's flowing sentences and rich metaphorical language describe characters whose concerns embrace the heroic, the metaphysical, and the mundane, as they fulfill their duties as Cossack warriors and family members. Otroshenko draws on his upbringing in Novocherkassk, a city on the Don River, creating a world and a book inhabited with absurdity, filial love, and unusual facial hair.

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A deeply strange novel that reads like a Chekhov play inspired by t he comedy stylings of Monty Python. Kirkus Reviews

Addendum to a Photo Album

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    A Paperback / softback by Vladislav Otroshenko, Lisa Hayden

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 23 April 2015
      ISBN-13 9781564781253
      978-1564781253
      ISBN-10 1564781259

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "Addendum to a Photo Album" is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife Annushka, and his many sons all born with sideburns, the novel details their fraught relationships, particularly when sitting for family photographs. Vladislav Otroshenko's flowing sentences and rich metaphorical language describe characters whose concerns embrace the heroic, the metaphysical, and the mundane, as they fulfill their duties as Cossack warriors and family members. Otroshenko draws on his upbringing in Novocherkassk, a city on the Don River, creating a world and a book inhabited with absurdity, filial love, and unusual facial hair.

      Trade Review
      A deeply strange novel that reads like a Chekhov play inspired by t he comedy stylings of Monty Python. Kirkus Reviews

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