The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties by Slesinger, Tess

The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590170144)

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The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties by Slesinger, Tess

The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties

$22.95
The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties by Slesinger, Tess

The Unpossessed: A Novel of the Thirties

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. This cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after bears comparison with the best work of Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy.

Author: Tess Slesinger
ISBN-10: 1590170148
ISBN-13: 9781590170144
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2002
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.60h x 6.08w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Vogue 09/01/2002 pg. 548
Atlantic Monthly 11/01/2002 pg. 127
PW Notes and Reprints 09/30/2002 pg. 52
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2002
By Tess Slesinger
By Tess Slesinger
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Tess Slesinger (1905-1945) grew up in New York in a progressive assimilated Jewish family and attended Swarthmore College and the Columbia University School of Journalism. After a few short-term jobs in journalism, she married Herbert Solow, editor of the Menorah Journal, through whom she became acquainted with the leading young, leftist intellectuals of the time, including Lionel Trilling and Clifton Fadiman. In addition to The Unpossessed, her only published novel, Slesinger's writing credits include one book of short stories, Time: the Present, and several screenplays, including The Good Earth and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRBClassics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.

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