| Glory Contributor(s): Nabokov, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679727248 ISBN-13: 9780679727248 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1991 Annotation: Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twnety-two-year-old Russian emigre of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050488 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.22" W x 7.99" (0.56 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian migr of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a perilous, daredevil project--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost. |