Cleaning Nabokovs House, Leslie Daniels
Cleaning Nabokovs House, Leslie Daniels
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Cleaning Nabokov's House

Author: Leslie Daniels

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2011

Synopsis

Blending bittersweet humor and defiant originality, this stunning debut about a woman rediscovering herself after a divorce explores the heartbreaking and sometimes funny aspects of the mess called love. Barb Barrett has inadequate skills for relationships. In particular, she cannot follow her husbands instructions. Because of this character flaw, she falls through the safety net of her lousy marriage, losing custody of her children and her home as she plummets. Guided only by her intense inner life, and a questionable business plan, Barb is determined to reinvent herself. She moves into a house once occupied by the literary genius Vladimir Nabokov, author of the notorious Lolita. She discovers what could be Nabokovs last unpublished manuscript and from there begins a painful yet joyous journey that is deliciously romantic, both darkly comic and wise. Introducing a dazzling new voice in fiction, Cleaning Nabokovs House will enchant womens fiction lovers with an accessible and engaging voice they will come to cherish.

About Leslie Daniels

Leslie Daniels’ stories have appeared in Ploughshares, the Missouri Review, the Florida Review, Gulf Coast, the Santa Monica Review, and the New Ohio Review. The Shooting Gallery in New York City produced her one-act play. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and for the Best of the Associated Writing Programs. In 2005 she became the fiction editor for the Green Mountains Review. In 2010 she relinquished that gig to focus on other projects.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on June 06, 2011

There were things I liked about this book, which is about a woman who lost her kids in a divorce and eventually buys up a house once lived in by Vladimir Nabokov. I loved reading the snippets of Nabokov woven throughout the book. Nabokov was the reason I picked it up in the first place. I even thoug......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on August 01, 2016

Cleaning Nabokov's House is hands down one of the funniest works of contemporary literary fiction. I find myself rereading the novel over and over again -- anytime I'm experiencing frustrations of my own, I turn to Leslie Daniels and her lovably haywire heroine, Barb, and I find myself suddenly joyf......more

Goodreads review by Jane on June 09, 2017

Pretty good and kept my interest. But I was annoyed with some things. (view spoiler)[ 1. The author was not clear enough about things at the end. She wasn’t specific. At the custody hearing for the children, the judge asked Barb what she wanted. Barb said full custody or joint custody if it’s irrevocable. The next s (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Jan on May 10, 2011

Barb Barrett is approaching age 40 when her life gets turned upside down. Her husband is divorcing her and he is taking their two children. She moves into a home once owned by Vladimir Nabokov and finds a manuscript that she believes is a lost work of his. She tries to get it published or at least f......more

Goodreads review by Janet on September 11, 2010

Hate to review another book that's not out yet, but cleaning Nabokov's house soooo good, funny and incredibly twisty, spot-on characterizations. It starts out slow, you think it's going to be a depressing small book about this poor kind of nebbishy, odd vague woman whose husband basically steamrolle......more

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