Books and Cooks West
February 2001
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
March 10 at 5:30 PM
At Kim's
Menu: vegetarian shepherd's pie, bread, cheese, chocolate angelfood cake, wine
Our rating: 2.17 cups of tea!
Book Description from Amazon.com
Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of
himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to
do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall.
Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass
goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible
crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound
meditation on guilt and retribution
