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The Anna Karenina Fix

Life Lessons from Russian Literature

by Viv Groskop

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Length 7 hours 34 minutes

Language English

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Anna Karenina Fix written and read by Viv Groskop.

A literary self-help memoir about using the Russian Classics to find the answer to life's most important questions.

Viv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn't love you back enough (The Master and Margarita),or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov's work). This is a literary self-help memoir, with examples from the author's own life that reflect the lessons of literature, only in a much less poetic way than Tolstoy probably intended, and with an emphasis on being excessively paranoid about having an emerging moustache on your upper lip, just like Natasha in War and Peace.

Biography & Memoir Self-Improvement Nonfiction Literary Criticism

Viv Groskop is an award-winning comedian (Say Thank You to the Lady and Be More Margot), a crack interviewer (most recently seen on Graham Norton's UK-wide book tour), and an agony aunt for The Pool. She is the author of I Laughed, I Cried (Orion 2013), and a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer and Mail on Sunday, as well as Front Row, Woman's Hour and Newsnight.

Audiobook details

Author:
Viv Groskop

Narrator:
Viv Groskop

ISBN:
9780241982587

Length:
7 hours 34 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date:
October 5, 2017

Edition:
Unabridged

Reviews

Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived. Explored with dancing wit, affection and brilliance, this is a passionate, hilarious, joyful love letter to Russian literature. Enchanting. Groskop falls in love with the literature, her impressive knowledge of which she conveys with a charmingly breezy tone 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 Groskop has a knack of giving you just enough biography of the author, just enough tantalising kiss-and-tell detail from the works . . . A delightful primer and companion to all the authors you are ashamed to admit you haven't read What does Tolstoy have in common with Oprah Winfrey? What can Chekhov teach us about body image? In The Anna Karenina Fix, comedian Viv Groskop shows us how to use Russian literature as self-help, with hilarious and eye-opening results A wry literary memoir examining what we can learn from the great Russian novelists Funny and only second best to reading the stuff itself A highly knowledgeable jaunt through 150 years of literature

Absolutely hilarious

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