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Vintage International Ser.: Despair by Vladimir Nabokov (1989, Trade Paperback)

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The wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. * "A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed." - Newsweek "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." - John Updike "One of Mr. Nabokov's finest, most challenging and provocative novels." - The New York Times Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd genius, Hermann is one with such other heteroclitic neurotic Nabokovian creations as Humbert Humbert and Charles Kimbote. Rapt in his own reality, incapable of escaping or explicating it, he is as solitary in his abyss as Luzhin or Charlotte Haze of Lolita . Despair is illuminated throughout by the virtuosity and cunning wit that are Vladimir Nabokov's hallmarks.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679723439
ISBN-13
9780679723431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
195375

Product Key Features

Book Title
Despair
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Psychological, Literary, Noir
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pg3476.N3o83 1989
Lccn
88-040533
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
21

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