Monster: Oil on Canvas

✍ Scribed by Dmitry Zlotsky

• Book ID: 110819515
• Publisher: Leapfrog Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Series: LeapLit
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781935248170
• ASIN: B0097CWH3U

✦ Synopsis

"Marvelously original. . . . Zlotsky has done for conjoined twins what Gunter 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.