The Last Station. Film Tie-In: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year

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2010
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1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in peaceful isolation. But the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be so simple.

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1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in peaceful isolation. But the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be so simple.

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Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 372
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd.
Published: Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 1847677797
ISBN 13: 9781847677792

Media Reviews

An impressively knowing and sensitive performance, a wistful late twentieth-century tribute to the giant conflicts of a more titanic age. * * Observer * *
One of those rare works of fiction that manage to demonstrate both scrupulous historical research and true originality of voice and perception. * * New York Times Book Review * *
Jay Parini has written a stylish, beautifully paced and utterly beguiling novel. * * Sunday Times * *
One of the best historical novels written in the last twenty years. -- Gore Vidal

Author Bio

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. Hiw six novels also include Benjamins Crossing and The Apprentice Lover. His volumes of poetry include The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. In addition to biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. He edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.