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Book SynopsisWINNER 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 TimesStacy 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 book
