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Vera by stacy schiff5/29/2023 Stacy Schiff's Vera is a triumph of the biographical form. Vera, 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. "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. (October 2018) Save 50 on an inspired pairing Get both The New York Review AND The Paris Review at one low price. Vladimir Nabokov), Cleopatra: A Life, and The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem. Vladimir Nabokov-the emigre author of "Lolita " Pale Fire and "Speak, Memory-wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Vera, and third for no one at all. Stacy Schiff is the author of, among other books, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. 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 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest litera.
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