✍ Scribed by Nabokov, Vladimir
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"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland ... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. ... Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. ... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis From the Trade Paperback edition.
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