NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to Lolita.
by [Nabokov, Vladimir] Roper, Robert
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Bloomsbury,, (2015). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in America - where he and Vera arrived in 1943, fleeing the Nazis. Roper discusses Nabokov's friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, but focuses on the journeys - 200,000 miles of them - which he took in the West, with his wife, Vera, and son Dmitri, in search of butterflies - on the two-lane highways and the roadside motels that he brings to life in Lolita. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs/ Bibliography, notes. 333 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 76489
- Title
- NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to Lolita.
- Author
- [Nabokov, Vladimir] Roper, Robert
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2015)
- Keywords
- butterfly collecting, american literature, arc, uncorrected proof
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary biographies;
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