Vra, Stacy Schiff
Vra, Stacy Schiff
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Vra

Author: Stacy Schiff

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 18 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/14/2009

Synopsis

Hailed by critics as "monumental" (Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Vra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory, wrote his books first for himself and secondly for his wife. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America and spanning much of the twentieth century, this telling of the Nabokov's fiftytwoyear marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine, a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Vra is a triumph of the biographical form.

About Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff is one of America's most acclaimed and popular historians. She is the author of VÉRA (MRS VLADIMIR NABOKOV), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; SAINT-EXUPÉRY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A GREAT IMPROVISATION: FRANKLIN, FRANCE, AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICA, winner of the George Washington Book Prize; and CLEOPATRA: A LIFE. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Named a 2011 Library Lion by the New York Public Library, she lives in New York City.www.stacyschiff.com@stacyschifffacebook.com/stacyschiff

Reviews

Goodreads review by Domenico Fina on May 03, 2020

Intervistatore: “Può dirci quanto è stata importante la collaborazione di sua moglie per lei?” Nabokov: “No, non posso” (The Listener, 23 ottobre 1969) Questo splendido libro (riletto e portato da quattro a cinque stelle che merita tutte), scritto da Stacy Schiff grazie a una borsa di studio della F......more

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly on March 21, 2011

With this book I conclude my review of Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas." Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas; Vladimir Nabokov and Vera Evseevna Slonim-Nabokov. Their lives and stories run along parallel lines. Alice B. Toklas and Vera Nabokov both survived their famous partners......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on December 12, 2021

This is a beautiful book, but I find it a little tricky to review because it's difficult to get the nuance right. The Russian Jew, Vera (née Slonim) Nabokov was something of a contradiction - an extremely proud, intelligent, well-read, mutlilingual scholar of a sort, who proudly made herself humbled......more

Goodreads review by Doris on January 17, 2020

I'm not sure why anyone would read an author's biography without already being familiar with the author's works; I'm even less certain why anyone would read a biography of an author's spouse without knowing anything much about the author. But I just did. Unfortunately Schiff did not successfully make......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 21, 2010

I cried when I finished this book. And not because Vera Nabokov dies, just as VN does, but because Schiff does such an excellent job of writing about this amazing woman and an amazing love story, without trying too hard to solve Vera's mysteries (which would simply be impossible). Although perhaps V......more

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