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Anton's Leap

Anton's Leap

Gagliano, Frank

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1419692003
ISBN13: 9781419692000
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 7 2008
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Part political thriller, part sex farce, Frank Gagliano's novel ANTON'S LEAP is narrated by free-associating, sex-obsessed ballet star Anton Otchayanie. It's 1982 and Anton wants to defect from Soviet Russia. But to do so, he'll have to survive a train collision in Prague, join a traveling troupe of erotic jugglers, fall in love, screw a lot, create ballet and Commedia dell Arte scenarios, get sodomized with the nose of a Commedia dell Arte mask, find a super-strength serum, struggle to find an artistic persona, and develop compassion for other human beings: All this, while fleeing (in drag) from a Gay KGB agent and Anton's own psychopathic twin brother Vahktang who, in a Kafkaesque horror scene, confronts Anton in a Prague Fun House. Richard Wagner's testicles also play a role. For fans of picaresque flights of literary fancy like Candide or Gulliver's Travels, and for devotees of unhinged surrealists like film director Federico Fellini, ANTON'S LEAP is a must-read tour-de-force.

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