The Unpossessed

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by Tess Slesinger

NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS, 2002

Review by Doris Anderson

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Reading this book not only takes you back to New York in the Dirty Thirties, but you are struck by how timely it is, with its cast of characters and their deeply held convictions about how the world should be changed. The plot involves a group of young idealists who wouldn't be terribly out of place today. There is the earnest young couple grappling with poverty and such penny-pinching moral decisions as whether bare necessities might be indulgences that should be postponed for the good of humanity. They further torture themselves with soul-searching discussions …