Vera: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) - Rilegato

Schiff, Stacy

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ISBN 10: 0679310150 ISBN 13: 9780679310150

Casa editrice: Random House Canada, 1999

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"When her 1991 New York Times obit called Véra 'Wife, Muse, and Agent' it only hinted at her role, which is rescued from obscurity in Schiff's graceful prose."  -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

L'autore:

Stacy Schiff's Saint Exupéry was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for this project. She lives with her family in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.

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• Editore: Random House Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679310150
• ISBN 13: 9780679310150
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida