The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them - Paperback
by Elif Batuman
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374532185ISBN-10:374532184UPC:9780374532185Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Books & ReadingAward:2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Criticism Award|2011 Literary Award Runner-Up - Art of the Essay AwardSize:8.22 x 5.60 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCDXKQ6S7R
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman's The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted--Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!--to the Russian Classics. No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies...Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374532185ISBN-10:374532184UPC:9780374532185Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Books & ReadingAward:2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Criticism Award|2011 Literary Award Runner-Up - Art of the Essay AwardSize:8.22 x 5.60 x 0.81 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCDXKQ6S7R
Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of the novels Either/Or, The Idiot, and the nonfiction book The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative...
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🏆 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Criticism Award|2011 Literary Award Runner-Up - Art of the Essay Award
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