Cited as one of the best books of 1990 by The New York Times and Time magazine, this major biography describes Nabokov's escape from Russia, his education at Cambridge, and his impoverished years in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee to the United States with his wife and son. 56 halftones.
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Cited as one of the best books of 1990 by The New York Times and Time magazine, this major biography describes Nabokov's escape from Russia, his education at Cambridge, and his impoverished years in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee to the United States with his wife and son. 56 halftones.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Very good condition. Dust jacket has a small approx. 1/4 inch edge rip on lower front dj edge. Otherwise minimal wear. Clean and tight. No writing or marking.
Brian Boyd - much like his subject - is a genius. His 2-volume 1000+ page biography reads like a novel yet is filled with so much detail and insight into the enigmatic mind of Nabokov that in content, it must rate as highly as a scholarly work as it is a literary one. Boyd's ability to balance the needs of a proper academic biography with that of a narrative biography is seemless. The reader is drawn into Nabokov's world without ever feeling in the least that he is being smothered in arcana. And yet every perfect detail, like the colors and patterns on the wings of Nabokov's beloved butterflies, is there. A masterpiece of biography and a masterpiece of storytelling.
