Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375755347)

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.

Author: Stacy Schiff
ISBN-10: 0375755349
ISBN-13: 9780375755347
Publisher: Modern Library
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2000
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/09/2000 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 04/28/2000 pg. 99
Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 28

About the Author
Stacy Schiff's 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.