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The Unpossessed

by Tess Slesinger · 1934

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Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossesseddetails 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.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1930s1930sMore like thisLess of thisNew YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 306 pages

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