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Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story Paperback - 2007
by Rachel Kadish
Tracy Farber, 33, happily single and headed for tenure at a major university, sets out to prove that happiness and the search for happiness can be, must be, a complicated mission. Little does she know that her best proof will come when she meets George, who will challenge all of her old assumptions.
Summary
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy famously wrote, Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This celebrated maxim seems questionable at best to literature professor Tracy Farber. If Tolstoy is to be taken at his word, only unhappiness is interesting; happiness is predictable and bland.
Tracy secretly nurtures an unusual project: proving that happiness can be uniquely interesting, in literature and in life. Although challenging the masterly Tolstoy creates a potential threat to her job security, Tracy is confident. After all, she’s her own perfect example -- content with friends and work and satisfied to be single at age thirty-three. But then she meets George, who will sweep her off her feet and challenge all of her theories. When love proves more complicated than Tracy had imagined, she struggles to find happiness in a way that fulfills both her head and her heart.
Tracy secretly nurtures an unusual project: proving that happiness can be uniquely interesting, in literature and in life. Although challenging the masterly Tolstoy creates a potential threat to her job security, Tracy is confident. After all, she’s her own perfect example -- content with friends and work and satisfied to be single at age thirty-three. But then she meets George, who will sweep her off her feet and challenge all of her theories. When love proves more complicated than Tracy had imagined, she struggles to find happiness in a way that fulfills both her head and her heart.
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- Title Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
- Author Rachel Kadish
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
- Date 2007-09-11
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780618919833 / 061891983X
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.58 x 0.84 in (20.88 x 14.17 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Happiness
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006000476
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Cuts to the very core of what a love story should be: not about how we find happiness, but about what it means to do so." The San Francisco Chronicle
"What a deep pleasure this novel is full of probing ideas, moments of hilarity, and a vivid, surprising story.." ---Elizabeth Graver
A love story with heft, weight, and dazzle. . . .an infectiously enjoyable novel.” -- Tova Mirvis
"What a deep pleasure this novel is full of probing ideas, moments of hilarity, and a vivid, surprising story.." ---Elizabeth Graver
A love story with heft, weight, and dazzle. . . .an infectiously enjoyable novel.” -- Tova Mirvis
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