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The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.
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This is a very good biography indeed – thorough, compassionate, refreshingly unreverential. Is it, on the other hand, necessary? Any literary biographer must proceed on the assumption that the life gives us the work, yet Nabokov’s scorn for this way ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 804 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0691024715
- ISBN-13: 9780691024714
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Pub date: Jan 11, 1993
- Dimensions: 1548 mm x 968 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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Craig Raine fondles Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov ‘had a flypaper feel for words’, according to Alison Bishop, who knew him at Cornell when she was a child. He might, therefore, have relished his biographer coming mildly unstuck in the course of this otherwise tenacious, intricately argued, ... (read full critics)