Anton's Leap
, by Gagliano, FrankNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781419692000 | 1419692003
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/30/2008
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.