Kadish, Rachel: * 1969
Tolstoy Lied, 2006 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" begins with 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Why, Rachel Kadish wonders, do we fall for this notion that only unhappiness is interesting ... that if you are not tragic you have become boring, undifferentiated? Why, she wonders, is it so hard for us to acknowledge that happiness can be deeply challenging, anything but dull?
- Articles
- Curled Up With A Good Book. "Kadish manages to write very believable characters that readers can empathize with." September 2007
- The Christian Science Monitor. "Kadish's insistence that happiness deserves serious consideration makes a nice change from the bleakness and suffering that's the default mode of many literary heavyweights." September 26, 2006
- San Francisco Chronicle. "'Tolstoy Lied' suffers from almost none of the pitfalls that define the Hollywood version of romantic comedies." September 3, 2006
- The Jewish Daily Forward. "The book as a whole confirms that Kadish is a young writer of developing talents, capable of fresh humor, keen insights and passages of lyrical beauty." September 01, 2006
- A young professor looks for happiness in literature -- but finds real love instead.. "Kadish's professors, with one or two exceptions, seldom act like real people who happen to teach literature." Teh Washington Post, September 9, 2006
- Rachel Kadish answers questions about the novel. Host: Hans Fischer. SwissEduc; July 10, 2008, Brewster, MA