Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast."-Anita Shreve " An absorbing story, illumined by Schiff's flair for the succinct insight." -The New York Times Book Review " Véra is an astonishingly fine book-a tale told with wit and elegance, a tale that succeeds in encompassing both the intimacy of a marriage and the sweep of history. " A sensitive rendering of one of the century's great love stories."-Mirabella " I am truly in love with this book.
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.
"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 twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all.
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 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 "Monumental."- The Boston Globe "Utterly romantic."- New York magazine "Deeply moving."- The Seattle Times 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.
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