Vera by Stacy Schiff

Vera by Stacy Schiff

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the award-winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes "an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov's] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov's marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
ONE OF ESQUIRE'S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME

"Monumental."--The Boston Globe
"Utterly romantic."--New York magazine
"Deeply moving."--The Seattle Times

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. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. "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 twentieth 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 Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Vera (Mrs. Schiff) is written by Stacy Schiff. Vladimir Nabokov, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2000, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995. The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement have all published Schiff's work. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers have all awarded her fellowships. She currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780375755347
ISBN 10	0375755349
Title	Vera
Author	Stacy Schiff
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-04-04
Number of pages	496
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2000
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