The Feud by Alex Beam

The Feud by Alex Beam

In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning to him book reviews for the New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. Finally the feud erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin's famously untranslatable verse novel Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend's translation with hammer and tong in the New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked in the same publication. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters volleyed until their friendship was reduced to ashes by the narcissism of small differences.

Alex Beam is a columnist for the Boston Globe. He was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Before joining the Globe as a business reporter in 1986, he worked for Newsweek and BusinessWeek. He is the author of Gracefully Insane and A Great Idea at the Time. Alex lives in Boston.
Michael Prichard is a professional narrator and stage and film actor who has played several thousand characters during his career. An Audie Award winner, he has recorded well over five hundred books and has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards. Michael was also named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine.

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ISBN 13	9781101870228
ISBN 10	1101870222
Title	The Feud
Author	Alex Beam
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	2016-12-06
Number of pages	224
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