Véra Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Author:
| Schiff, Stacy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-04111-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Modern Library |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $54.00 |
Book Description:
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER 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 "VEra (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...
More Description"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
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 "VEra (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.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."