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Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
Contributor(s): Schiff, Stacy (Author), Fields, Anna (Read by)
ISBN: 1441784152     ISBN-13: 9781441784155
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $40.46  
Product Type: MP3 CD
Published: February 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.26 lbs)
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Vera, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the emigre author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife Vera, and third for no one at all. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokov's fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vera, 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. Stacy Schiff's Vera is a triumph of the biographical form.

Contributor Bio(s): Schiff, Stacy: -

Stacy Schiff is the author of Vera, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupery, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has contributed to the New Yorker, New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others. She lives in New York City.

Fields, Anna: -

Anna Fields (1965-2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.