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    "description": "<b>An intimate new portrait of the bold and determined woman who saved Dostoyevsky's life&mdash;and became a pioneer in Russian literary history</b><br />In the fall of 1866&mdash;against the backdrop of Russia's first feminist movement&mdash;an independent-minded young stenographer named Anna Snitkina went to work for a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The volatile and visionary novelist was already a celebrated literary provocateur, yet Anna found him \"terribly unhappy, broken, tormented,\" sickened by epilepsy, anguished by the recent loss of his wife&mdash;and in thrall to a gambling addiction that kept him on the verge of emotional and financial ruin.<br />Shocked by his condition, the strong-willed Anna quickly became his confidante, then his wife, and soon his manager&mdash;launching one of literature's most turbulent and fascinating marriages. Now, for the first time,&#160;<i>The Gambler Wife</i>&#160;gives us a rich and psychologically acute portrait of the complex power dynamic between the tortured Fyodor, who created his greatest works (including&#160;<i>The Possessed</i>&#160;and&#160;<i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>) under her care, and the courageous Anna, who inspired Dostoyevsky, directed his career&mdash;and became the first woman in Russia to run her own publishing house.<br />Full of dramatic set pieces, and drawing on a trove of unseen writings,&#160;<i>The Gambler Wife</i>&#160;is a story of love, addiction, and redemption, and a rediscovery of a woman whose pioneering life has long been obscured by literary historians.",
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