Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

✍ Scribed by Schiff, Stacy

• Book ID: 109455683
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 485 KB
• Series: ruslib
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780330346733

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's V era (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the emigre author of Lolita ;Pale Fire ; and Speak, Memory --wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Vera, and third for no one at all.

"Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vera, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine--a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Vera is a triumph of the biographical form.

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