Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov

Vera: Mrs. Vladimir NabokovNEW 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 V ra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov the migr author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, V ra, and third for

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 04/04/2000
ISBN: 9780375755347
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 04/09/2000 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 04/28/2000 pg. 99
Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 28