Tolstoy Together

85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li

Tolstoy Together
Yiyun Li
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Paperback
h216 x 146mm - 256pg
3 Jun 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781734590760
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A reader' s companion for Tolstoy' s epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer[ing] a solidity during a time of duress. "
Tolstoy Together "embodies the common humanity. . . a paradoxically rich connection with strangers who are widely dispersed yet linked by their predicaments and imaginations. . . . Thousands of isolated souls are on the same page. " -the Economist Among the many pleasures of the #TolstoyTogether group, while life has often felt on pause (which has ups and downs to it) seeing how much we' ve read reminds me I' ve been traveling all along, and not alone. -Carl Phillips A Public Space initiated a communal reading of Tolstoy' s War and Peace under the aegis of the novelist Yiyun Li, with the intention of lifting spirits and establishing a common bond among lovers of good literature. -Joyce Carol Oates, Wall Street Journal The brilliant novelist Yiyun Li has started a War and Peace book club online. . . at A Public Space. You read 12 pages a day of War and Peace in a whole community of readers. And the next thing you know, you have read the book and the pandemic is over and you have read War and Peace, which is terrific. -Ann Patchett, the PBS Newshour Tolstoy Together couldn' t have come at a better moment. It already has a vibrant community of readers participating just two days into the read. The group additionally benefits from A Public Space' s active and inviting Twitter presence (you don' t need to be an English major, or even a regular reader, to feel welcomed), and if you aren' t a big social media person you can still follow along with Li' s wonderful musings on A Public Space' s blog. -The Week
Yiyun Li is the author of seven books, including Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University. A Public Space is an independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous award-winning literary, arts, and culture magazine, and A Public Space Books. Under the direction of founding editor Brigid Hughes since 2006, it has been our mission to seek out overlooked and unclassifiable work, and to publish writing from beyond established confines.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781734590760
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: A Public Space
Publisher: A Public Space
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 146mm
Pages: 256

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