Vera - (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (Paperback, Modern Library pbk. ed)

The biography of a great author's wife - who on earth would want to read that? Well, when the wife was as important to the author and his work as Vera Nabokov was to Vladimir, then a lot of people would - or at any rate they would if they knew just how interesting the story was. For one thing, but for Vera we would not have Lolita: in 1948 she found her husband feeding the pages of the manuscript, one by one, into an incinerator. 'Get away from there!' she said, stamping on the flaming pages, 'We're keeping this!' And they did. The wife served the husband well for the whole of his life, and without - as far as one gathers - a single word of thanks (though he did dedicate all his books to her). A lesson in how to be the wife of a writer? Maybe more of a Dreadful Warning - but in any case a most fascinating book. (Kirkus UK)

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.

General

Imprint:	Modern Library Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2000
First published:	April 2000
Authors:	Stacy Schiff
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	496
Edition:	Modern Library pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-75534-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-375-75534-9
Barcode:	9780375755347

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