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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1989, Trade Paperback)

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Pnin, Paperback by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, ISBN 0679723412, ISBN-13 9780679723417, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Depicts the struggles of Timofey Pnin, a professor of Russian, who attempts to adapt himself to life at an institution.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679723412

ISBN-139780679723417

eBay Product ID (ePID)341064

Product Key Features

Book TitlePnin

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year1989

GenreFiction

AuthorVladimir Nabokov

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-040527

Reviews"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike "Has there ever been a better novel written about a fumbling Russian émigré?" -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends "Hilariously funny and of a sadness." -- Graham Greene, acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The End of the Affair "Pnin's vita, though its essence is saintliness, is yet a work of brilliant magic and fabulous laughter." -- The New Republic "Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect." -- Chicago Tribune "Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way the masters can--to laughter that is near to tears." -- The Guardian

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisOne of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. "Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect." -- Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct.

LC Classification NumberPS3527.A15P59 1989