Transparent Things
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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- ISBN 10
- 0140039686
- ISBN 13
- 9780140039689
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About This Item
London: Pinguin Books, 1975. New Book. Paperback. 107 pp.
A novel of dreams, memory and the past recaptured; murder, madness, imprisonment... and a final sentimental journey.
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, aftermultiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. ... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. ... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." - Martin Amis
A novel of dreams, memory and the past recaptured; murder, madness, imprisonment... and a final sentimental journey.
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, aftermultiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. ... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. ... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." - Martin Amis
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- Bookseller
- Globus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16086
- Title
- Transparent Things
- Author
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Book Condition
- New New Book
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0140039686
- ISBN 13
- 9780140039689
- Publisher
- Pinguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
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