The Unpossessed

by Tess Slesinger

Genres: Historical Fiction; Black Humor

Synopsis

Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. This cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after bears comparison with the best work of Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy.

Release date: May 23, 2012

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Print pages: 328