![]() This portrait of a fifty-two-year marriage to a woman who was the writer’s prime reader opens up Nabokov’s private life. “An absorbing story, illumined by Schiff’s flair for the succinct insight. ![]() Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. ![]() Véra, 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. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” ![]() Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. Stacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak, Memory, and his beloved wife, Véra. ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
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