Véra : Mrs Vladimir Nabokov

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both ';monumental'(The Boston Globe) and ';utterly romantic'(New Yorkmagazine), Stacy Schiff'sVera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokovthe emigre author ofLolita; Pale Fire;andSpeak, Memorywrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Vera, 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 century, the story of the Nabokovs'fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vera, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroinea woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff'sVerais a triumph of the biographical form.