NABOKOV IN AMERICA: On the Road to Lolita.

by [Nabokov, Vladimir] Roper, Robert.

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

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.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury,
• Year: 2015
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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