{"id":8937,"date":"2013-11-24T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:19:56","slug":"tess-slesinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/tess-slesinger\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: TESS SLESINGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Tess Slesinger&#8217;s writing invites comparison with the best work of Dorothy Parker, Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy.<\/span> She will be remembered for her modern &amp; up-to-the-minute report on the state of marriage, sexuality, political culture, and work in 1930s America. Her style was biting, yet emotionally revealing, typical of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker where she published frequently. Slesinger moved in the same circles as Lionel Trilling, Clifton Fadiman and other famed liberal intellectuals, who seem to have provided her with rich material. Tess Slesinger\u2019s cult classic 1934 novel, <em>The Unpossessed<\/em> details the ins and outs &amp; 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIt\u2019s sophisticated \u2026 satiric, then ecstatic, alternating social criticism with displays of sexual and intellectual coquetry.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 The Village Voice<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>Hard bound with dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards with red\/gold titles. Red top stain. Dust jacket with tipped in author photo, as issued. Wear and minor sunning to edges of boards. Some soiling to page edges, and foxing to end pages. Dust jacket shows some tanning, with one small red stain to rear. Interior pages clean and binding tight.\u00a0 Scarce!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 23013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8938\" title=\"tess\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tess-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"tess\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tess-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tess.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Unpossessed<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Slesinger, Tess<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Simon &amp; Schuster<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>1934<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Good<br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> First Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tess Slesinger&#8217;s writing invites comparison with the best work of Dorothy Parker, Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy. She will be remembered for her modern &amp; up-to-the-minute report on the state of marriage, sexuality, political culture, and work in 1930s America. Her style was biting, yet emotionally revealing, typical of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14941,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}