The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman is a 396-page softcover published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York. Copyright 2010. The condition is very good.
Book Summary
If you're going to read just one book about conference planning, Isaac Babel, Leo Tolstoy, Boys' Leg Contests, Giiant Apes, Uzbek Poetry, The Life of the Mind, and Resignation of the Soul--seek no Father: THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!
The Possessed draws on Elif Bautman's articles in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n + 1 to tell the true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her many strange encounters with fellow scholars devoted--absurdly! melancholically! beautifully! --to the Russian classics.
