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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

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Cited as one of the best books of 1990 by The New York Times and Time magazine, this major biography describes Nabokov's escape from Russia, his education at Cambridge, and his impoverished years in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee to the United States with his wife and son. 56 halftones.

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    • Title: Vladimir Nabokov by Brian Boyd
    • Publisher: Princeton University Press
    • Print ISBN: 9780691067940, 0691067945
    • eText ISBN: 9781400884025
    • Edition: 1990
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

1993, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780691024707

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

1990, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780691067940

Books by Brian Boyd

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Nilbog

Apr 26, 2007

Outstanding Biography

Brian Boyd - much like his subject - is a genius. His 2-volume 1000+ page biography reads like a novel yet is filled with so much detail and insight into the enigmatic mind of Nabokov that in content, it must rate as highly as a scholarly work as it is a literary one. Boyd's ability to balance the needs of a proper academic biography with that of a narrative biography is seemless. The reader is drawn into Nabokov's world without ever feeling in the least that he is being smothered in arcana. And yet every perfect detail, like the colors and patterns on the wings of Nabokov's beloved butterflies, is there. A masterpiece of biography and a masterpiece of storytelling.

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