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The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature
The Anna Karenina Fix Life Lessons from Russian Literature Author:Viv Groskop 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 appe... more »arance (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.« less