Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) : a biography

cloth, dust jacket, xiv, 456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. very good copy, This is a biography of the woman who stood at the centre of Vladimir Nabokov's life and work. Friends, colleagues, relatives and publishers all agreed he would have been nowhere without her. After himself Vladimir wrote novels for his wife Vera

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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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0679447903

ISBN-13: 9780679447900

Publisher: Random House

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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