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Vera

(Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Vera( )
Author: Schiff, Stacy
ISBN:978-0-375-75534-7
Publication Date:Apr 2000
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Modern Library
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the award-winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes "an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov's] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov's marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times   ONE OF ESQUIRE'S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME...
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Book Details
Pages:496
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet
Literary Criticism / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.22 x 7.93 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:0.912 Pounds
Author Biography
Schiff, Stacy (Author)
Stacy Schiff was born on October 26, 1961 in Adams, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a Senior Editor at Simon and Schuster until 1990. She is the author of several nonfiction books including Saint-Exupéry: A Biography about Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Cleopatra: A Life, and The Witches: Salem 1692. She won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for Véra: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov in 2000.

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