Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. Véra, 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.

'Without my wife,' he once noted, 'I wouldn't have written a single novel.' Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel.

Vladimir Nabokov-the émigré author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak, Memory-wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time.

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both 'monumental' ( The Boston Globe) and 'utterly romantic' ( New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.Stacy Schiff Vera (Mrs. I doubt whether you can even give your telephone number without giving something of yourself. Véra, 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. The crudest curriculum vitae crows and flaps its wings in a style peculiar to the undersigner. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra By: Stacy Schiff Narrated by: Anna Fields Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins 3.9 (46 ratings) Try for 0. Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both monumental (The Boston Globe) and utterly romantic (New York magazine). Vladimir Nabokov),' has been down the Revolutionary road before with A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth. 'Without my wife,' he once noted, 'I wouldn't have written a single novel.' Stacy Schiff writes that Vera Nabokov was actually responsible for Lolita, in one respect at least: she saved the manuscript from the fire into which. Schiff, who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography for 'Vera (Mrs. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. Stacy 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. ONE OF ESQUIRE'S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME Description WINNER 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 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

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