Vera by stacy schiff5/23/2023 I knew nothing about Vera Nabokov when I started this book and I left it feeling like I had known her personally. It is this book’s greatest strength that Schiff manages to paint a vivid picture of Vera in all her wonderful contradictions regardless. This is never more true than in a case like this, where the subject wanted to be unknowable, even while alive (“I am always there. Stacy Schiff’s Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.Ī biography written after its subject has died must necessarily be an approximation. 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. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America and spanning much of the twentieth century, this telling of the Nabokov’s fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory, wrote his books first for himself and secondly for his wife. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Hailed by critics as “monumental” (Boston Globe) and “utterly romantic” (New York magazine), Véra, the story of Mrs. Verdict: Fascinating, incredibly well-researched picture of a brilliant and frustrating woman.
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