Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
Stacy Schiff$17.85
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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 V ra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the migr author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, V ra, 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. V ra, 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 V ra is a triumph of the biographical form.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 04/04/2000
ISBN: 9780375755347
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 04/09/2000 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 04/28/2000 pg. 99
Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 28
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 ra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the migr author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, V ra, 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. V ra, 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 V ra is a triumph of the biographical form.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 04/04/2000
ISBN: 9780375755347
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Review Citations: New York Times 04/09/2000 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 04/28/2000 pg. 99
Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 28