Vera: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) - Brossura

Schiff, Stacy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375755349 ISBN 13: 9780375755347

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2000

Riassunto

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 Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov—the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory—wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, 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. Véra, 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 Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

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An absorbing story, illumined by Schiff's flair for the succinct insight. --New York Times Book Review

A sensitive rendering of one of the century's great love stories. --Mirabella

I am truly in love with this book. Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast. --Anita Shreve

L'autore:

Stacy Schiff's Saint Exupéry was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375755349
• ISBN 13: 9780375755347
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496