{"product_id":"antons-leap-frank-gagliano-9781419692000","title":"Anton's Leap","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Gagliano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1419692003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781419692000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Booksurge Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d","brand":"Frank Gagliano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419488502015,"sku":"9781419692000","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa04c181-e161-4dea-b469-a279e5e97853.jpg?v=1761511844","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antons-leap-frank-gagliano-9781419692000","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}