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Robert Alexander
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Rasputin's Daughter |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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320 |
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2006-01-19 |
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0670034681 |
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Viking Adult |
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0.97 pounds |
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1.2 x 5.76 x 8.54 inches |
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First Edition |
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From the author of the breakout bestseller The Kitchen Boy, a new novel delving into the mysterious life and death of the notorious Rasputin
With the same riveting historical narrative that made The Kitchen Boy a national bestseller and a book-club favorite, Robert Alexander returns to revolutionary Russia for the harrowing tale of Rasputin’s final days as told by his youthful and bold daughter, Maria. Interrogated by the provisional government on the details of her father’s death, Maria vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where Rasputin’s powerful influence over the throne is unsettling to all levels of society and the threats to his life are no secret. With vast conspiracies mounting against her father, Maria must struggle with the discovery of Rasputin’s true nature—his unbridled carnal appetites, mysterious relationship with the empress, rumors of involvement in secret religious cults—to save her father from his murderers. Swept away in a plot much larger than the death of one man, Maria finds herself on the cusp of the Russian Revolution itself. With Rasputin’s Daughter, Robert Alexander once again delivers an imaginative and compelling story, fashioned from one of history’s most fascinating characters who, until now, has been virtually unexplored in fiction.
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Meg (USA: MD) (2007/04/30):
This is easily one of the worst books I've ever read. It is essentially taken from the 500 page testimony given by those closest to Rasputin in the months after his murder to the Thirteenth Section and doesn't expand much past that. The author could have done so much more with the subject of the impending revolution and presents nearly all of the characters as uni-dimentional, as footnotes in the Rasputin story. It is miserably plebian and abysmally dull with a horribly predictable ending (no, I'm not talking about the murder of Rasputin.) If you want a good historically accurate read on the testimony, read 'The Rasputin File' by Edvard Radzinsky.
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