Vera - (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Stacy Schiff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Vera" is the "utterly romantic" ("New York" magazine) story of the 52-year marriage between Vladimir Nabokov, one the 20th century's most original writers, and a woman with an intellect and devotion to literature equal to her husband's.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br> </b><br> Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>) and "utterly romantic" (<i>New York</i> magazine), Stacy Schiff's <i>Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)</i> brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of <i>Lolita; Pale Fire;</i> and <i>Speak, Memory</i>--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. <p/> "Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. 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. Stacy Schiff's <i>Véra</i> is a triumph of the biographical form.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>" A sensitive rendering of one of the century's great love stories."--Mirabella <p/>" I am truly in love with this book. Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast."--Anita Shreve <p/>" An absorbing story, illumined by Schiff's flair for the succinct insight."<br> --The New York Times Book Review <p/>" Véra is an astonishingly fine book--a tale told with wit and elegance, a tale that succeeds in encompassing both the intimacy of a marriage and the sweep of history. I found it a great pleasure to read. And I'm in awe of Stacy Schiff's talent."--Jonathan Harr<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Stacy Schiff's</b> Saint Exupéry was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in New York City.
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