Ebook {Epub PDF} Véra by Stacy Schiff

By Stacy Schiff At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) explores a remarkable literary partnership--that of a woman who devoted her life to her husband's art and a man who dedicated his works to his wife. Winner of the 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. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time/5.  · Winner of the 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. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our bltadwin.ru: Random House Publishing Group.

Vera Slonim Nabokov may be one of the most difficult women for a biography--she deliberately lived in the shadow of her famous husband. But Stacy Schiff does an amazing job, piecing together Vera's life from stories about her family and her husband Vladimir Nabokov. In particular, I appreciated two aspects of the book. 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. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. Publisher: Random House Publishing Group. Awards. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's V├®ra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov—the ├®migr├® author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory—wrote his books.

Pulitzer-Prize winner, Stacy Schiff, suggests, even in the title of her book, that Véra Nabokov was a woman who was only capable of being known as Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov. Her relationship with her famed husband, no matter what its course, was the defining factor of her life. 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. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is her outsize heroine—a woman who loves the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy as deeply and intelligently as she did. The biographical form of Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph.