![]() ![]() ![]() Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. 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. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Vladimir Nabokov) explores a remarkable literary partnership-that of. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. Vera (Mrs. At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Vera (Mrs. ![]() Stacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak, Memory, and his beloved wife, Véra. ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of 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.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY ![]()
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