Pale Fire

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ISBN-10: 0679723420
ISBN-13: 9780679723424
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 04/23/1989
Dimensions: 8.05" L, 5.31" W, 0.70" H

Pale Fire

byVladimir Nabokov

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Overview

In “Pale Fire” Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the recluse genius John Shade: an adoring foreward and commentary by Shade’s self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote: a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.

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"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically."–John Updike

"This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose ... is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century." –Mary McCarthy

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679723420
ISBN-13: 9780679723424
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 04/23/1989
Dimensions: 8.05" L, 5.31" W, 0.70" H
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