| Bend Sinister Contributor(s): Nabokov, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679727272 ISBN-13: 9780679727279 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Dystopian - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89040559 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.21" W x 7.96" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime. |