The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
by Viv Groskop
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Pub Date 23 Oct 2018 | Archive Date 22 Oct 2018
ABRAMS | Abrams Press
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Description
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov’s work). In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines these and other works, as well as the lives of their celebrated creators, and her own experiences as a student of Russian, to answer the question “How should you live your life?” This is a charming and fiercely intelligent book, a love letter to Russian literature and an exploration of the answers these writers found to life’s questions.
Advance Praise
“Enchanting.”— The Observer
“This wonderfully entertaining book is a passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature.”— Allison Pearson, The Telegraph (*****)
"Learn how to hack life 19th-century Russian style! You'll totally be like Anna Karenina without getting (spoiler alert) run over by a train!"— Gary Shteyngart,
"Everyone's happiness project looks different, and for Viv Groskop, reading great works of Russian literature held the key to a happier life. In this hilarious, candid, and thought-provoking memoir, she explains how she used lessons from Russian classics to understand herself better and to create the life she wanted.”— Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project
"A beguiling tasting menu of some of the finest reading experiences of my life. Witty, likeable, and lighthearted, Viv Groskop invites us to embrace the work of these august Russian dead souls as belonging to us all.”— Lionel Shriver,
“Funny, clever and joyful. I loved this book.”— Nina Stibbe, best-selling author of Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
“This wonderfully entertaining book is a passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature.”— Allison Pearson, The Telegraph (*****)
"Learn how to hack life 19th-century Russian style! You'll totally be like Anna Karenina without getting (spoiler alert) run over by a train!"— Gary Shteyngart,
"Everyone's happiness project looks different, and for Viv Groskop, reading great works of Russian literature held the key to a happier life. In this hilarious, candid, and thought-provoking memoir, she explains how she used lessons from Russian classics to understand herself better and to create the life she wanted.”— Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project
"A beguiling tasting menu of some of the finest reading experiences of my life. Witty, likeable, and lighthearted, Viv Groskop invites us to embrace the work of these august Russian dead souls as belonging to us all.”— Lionel Shriver,
“Funny, clever and joyful. I loved this book.”— Nina Stibbe, best-selling author of Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781419732720 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 224 |
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