The Tragic Menagerie (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810114838)

Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student, rejecting a life she finds constraining and artificial. Only when she returns to her natural world can her deeper compassionate and imaginative self emerge.


Author: Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
ISBN-10: 0810114836
ISBN-13: 9780810114838
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/1999
Pages: 185
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.17w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/18/1999 pg. 328
Library Journal 01/01/1999 pg. 163
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/1999 pg. 177
Booklist 02/01/1999 pg. 963
New York Times 05/16/1999 pg. 29