The Annotated Nose by Marc Estrin
Fiction Clothbound
ISBN 13: 978-1-932961-57-7
7 x 10 / 480 pages / $39.95
November 1, 2008
Summary
A most unlikely life.
“Marc Estrin” discovers that another writer’s novel — The Nose — not only has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation’s youth, but is based on the extraordinary life of a real person—an outcast named Alexei Pigov.
“Estrin” searches Alexei out and asks him to provide annotations to The Nose.
Alexei says that—although the events of the novel might, for the most part, be real—the purported reasons for them are all damnable lies.
On the left-hand page of The Annotated Nose we read The Nose itself, and take in its beautifully unsettling illustrations.
On the right-hand page we follow Alexei’s complaints – always surprising and often far-reaching.
The layers in Estrin’s remarkable comic book are as multiple, eclectic, and outrageous as the sequence of masks Alexei wears to hide his face from the world over the caroming trajectory of his most unlikely life.
The Annotated Nose is at once Marc Estrin’s most playful and his most ambitious work to date. A signed and numbered limited edition of 75 copies is also available.
Limited Edition Cover
Bio
Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont.
He is the author of four other novels,
Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa, The Education of Arnold Hitler, Golem Song, and The Lamentations of Julius Marantz.
Marc Estrin 's Website
Marc Reads from The Annotated Nose
The Annotated Nose Excerpt (pdf)
Unbridled Aloud featuring Marc Estrin
Trabulsy Interview with Marc Estrin on YouTube