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LIFE AFTER OPRAH Authors who got their big break from book club still grateful for TV host's 'gift'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20040714
Author:Delia O'Hara

Leo Tolstoy isn't around to enjoy Anna Karenina's run as an Oprah Book Club selection, but his translators are.

The husband-and-wife team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky had a hard time finding a publisher for a new translation for the Russian writer's story of a woman who leaves her husband for a dashing lover, originally published as a serial between 1873 and 1879. Pevear and Volokhonsky's collaboration, released here in 2001, had sold about 60,000 copies by early this year.

However, since being chosen last month as the first book Oprah is reading along with her viewers, Annais ...

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