num_pages: 306
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Unpossessed
titlecomplete: The Unpossessed
characters: Merle Middleton, Jeffrey Blake, Al Middleton, Emmett Middleton, Bruno Leonard, Margaret Flinders, Norah Blake, Miles Flinders, Elizabeth Leonard
genres: Classics, American, New York, The United States Of America, Female Authors, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 186
places: New York City, New York
publisher: NYRB Classics