| King, Queen, Knave Contributor(s): Nabokov, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679723404 ISBN-13: 9780679723400 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1989 Annotation: The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88040530 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.24" W x 7.98" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store.Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha.Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed." |