The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature - Hardcover

Groskop, Viv

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241308631 ISBN 13: 9780241308639

Verlag: Fig Tree, 2017

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'A passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph

'A delightful primer and companion to all the authors you are ashamed to admit you haven't read' The Times

Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you back enough (A Month in the Country by Turgenev) or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov's work). This is a literary self-help memoir, with examples from the author's own life that reflect the lessons of literature, only in a much less poetic way than Tolstoy probably intended, and with an emphasis on being excessively paranoid about having an emerging moustache on your upper lip, just like Natasha in War and Peace.

***A SPECTATOR Book of the Year***
***An OBSERVER Book of the Year***
***A TIMES Book of the Year***

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Viv Groskop is an award-winning comedian (Say Sorry to the Lady, Be More Margo and Anchorwoman), a crack interviewer (most recently seen on Graham Norton's UK-wide book tour), and an agony aunt for The Pool. She is the author of I Laughed, I Cried (Orion 2013), and a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer and Mail on Sunday, as well as Front Row, Woman's Hour and Newsnight.

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Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you back enough (A Month in the Country by Turgenev) or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov's work). This is a literary self-help memoir, with examples from the author's own life that reflect the lessons of literature, only in a much less poetic way than Tolstoy probably intended, and with an emphasis on being excessively paranoid about having an emerging moustache on your upper lip, just like Natasha in War and Peace.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fig Tree
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0241308631
• ISBN 13: 9780241308639
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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