false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg 238958 10 She was wearing a black satin mask when they first met in 1923, and in a sense she wore a mask--that of the dutiful wife and helpmeet--throughout their 52-year marriage. Especially after the American publication of <I>Lolita</I> made her husband notorious in 1958, Véra Nabokov's presence at her husband's side was crucial, writes her biographer Stacy Schiff: "[It] kept the fiction in its place, reassured readers ... that Nabokov's perversities were of a different kind." But Véra Slonim (1902-91) was essential to Vladimir Nabokov's literary career from the beginning. She had a gift for handling practical matters that her spouse proudly lacked; she screened him from his publishers and his admirers with equal firmness, and in doing so she liberated him to fulfill the artistic genius they both believed he possessed. Praised for a previous biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Schiff here cements her reputation as a literary biographer of striking subtlety and perceptiveness. She establishes a strong base in chapter 1 with her excellent analysis of Véra Slonim's youth in a privileged Russian Jewish family in St. Petersburg. She then pursues her subject's elusive personality through hints in Nabokov's work and the comments of friends and colleagues. Schiff's elegant prose and eye for nuance nearly match Nabokov himself in this lucid, unsentimental portrait of a marriage. <I>--Wendy Smith</I> 1382441 1999 Vera (Mrs.Vladimir Nabokov) total:116|5:28|4:51|3:31|2:6|1:0| 116 449 211 18 370924 0375755349 9780375755347 23 4 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174226964m/370924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370924.Vera 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 11:43:07 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 04:28:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3281645 0679447903 9780679447900 1 1 3.87 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281645.Vera 3 0 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 06:18:47 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 20:07:08 -0800 2009 238958 0330346733 9780330346733 90 13 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238958.Vera 2 0 false Wed Jun 13 13:20:09 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 13:28:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 238958 0330346733 9780330346733 90 13 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238958.Vera 4 0 false Thu Sep 25 10:23:40 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 15:07:55 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 10:23:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 370924 0375755349 9780375755347 23 4 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174226964m/370924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370924.Vera 5 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:03:27 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 07 12:45:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 238958 0330346733 9780330346733 90 13 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238958.Vera 4 0 false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Mar 20 08:13:29 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 08:17:46 -0700 2008 238958 0330346733 9780330346733 90 13 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238958.Vera 3 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 13:59:12 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 14:02:29 -0700 2007 238958 0330346733 9780330346733 90 13 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238958.Vera 3 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 15:18:08 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 15:18:08 -0700 2008 238958 0330346733 9780330346733 90 13 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173022301m/238958.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238958.Vera 4 0 false Thu Mar 27 10:26:26 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 10:55:16 -0700 2008
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