Nabokov in America
on the road to Lolita
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Word Count
88,500 words, Guess
Page Count
354 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenabokovinamerica0000rope_i4s2
- Internet Archivenabokovinamerica0000rope
- Internet Archivenabokovinamerica0000rope_g7p1
- ISBN-100802743633
- ISBN-139780802743633
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2014045288
- OCLC Control Number897946344
- Better World Books9780802743633
- Open LibraryOL27185261M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPG3476.N3 Z8375 2015
and 1 more
- LCCPG3476.N3Z8375 2015
Alternate Titles
- On the road to Lolita
Description
Writing about the author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to a distinguished Russian family, Robert Roper fills out Vladimir Nabokov's American period, covering Nabokov's critical friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera, and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered more than 200,000 miles as he indulged his other passion: butterfly collecting. Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and traces their significant influence in Nabokov's work: on two-lane highways and in late-'40s motels and cafes, we feel Lolita draw near, and understand Nabokov's seductive familiarity with the American mundane." --
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