Pale Fire
A Novel
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
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BOOK SUMMARY
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatr
BOOK SYNOPSIS
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword 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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"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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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679723420
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679723424
Copyright: 1989
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 88040532
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 315
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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