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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): A Biography
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Stacy Schiff
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
May 1, 1999
Pages
456
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679447900
ISBN-10
0679447903
Dimensions
1.50 by 7 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.90 lbs.
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$27.95
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A Gentleman in Moscow | The Witches | A Great Improvisation | Letters to Vera | Cleopatra | Saint-Exupery | Vladimir Nabokov | Saint-Exupery
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
An intimate portrait of a remarkable woman and her marriage to the enigmatic author Vladimir Nabokov offers a study of Vera Nabokov and her role in her husband's life and literary career, in a biography based on new material, including personal letters, diaries, and family correspondence. 20,00 first printing.
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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 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.
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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Hardcover
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from Random House Inc (May 1, 1999)
9780679447900 | details & prices | 456 pages | 7.00 × 9.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $27.95
About: Explores the remarkable literary partnership of the Russian author and his wife of fifty-two years
About: Explores the remarkable literary partnership of the Russian author and his wife of fifty-two years
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Anna Fields |
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (October 1, 2001)
9780786120901 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.50 × 2.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $85.95
About: [Audio Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case][Read by Anna Fields]Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Hailed by critics as both ''monumental'' (Boston Globe) and ''utterly romantic'' (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Vera, the story of Mrs.
About: [Audio Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case][Read by Anna Fields]Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Hailed by critics as both ''monumental'' (Boston Globe) and ''utterly romantic'' (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Vera, the story of Mrs.
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