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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 0679723390
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100062977
- Release Date: August 1, 1989
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #88626 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #2453 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #79 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Speak, Memory" by Brian Boyd and Vladimir Nabokov to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Speak, Memory"Browse more products related to "Brian Boyd and Vladimir Nabokov"Review"In places memory speaks at too great length, but more often with an hallucinatory and almost suffocating density of minute detail before which one's own memories of Nabokov's snobbery or peevishness, though only a page or two earlier, fade almost to nothing.When he is writing about someone or something he loves, he is irresistable; when he is writing of someone or something he despises, he can even manage to enlist one's sympathies, if only momentarily, for the object of his contempt." First lineThe cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Publisher's noteFrom one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times. A moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and emigre life in Paris and Berlin, Speak, Memory is Nabokov at his incomparable best. AnnotationVladimir Nabokov's dazzling autobiography, published in 1966, is a dense and enchanting flood of recollections--of his comfortable bourgeois childhood and adolescence, his obsession with lepidoptery, his rich and liberal-minded father, his beautiful and compassionate mother, an army of relations and hangers-on, and St. Petersburg in pre-revolutionary Russia. It's a world that was snatched away from him at age 18, when the Russian Revolution compelled the family to flee. The events of the book cover a span of 37 years, from 1903 to 1940, when Nabokov (1899-1977) immigrated to America. In his foreword to the original edition, he explains how he reconstructed his past, corrects a couple of chronological blunders ("Mnemosyne...has shown herself to be a very careless girl"), and provides some information on the chess problems in the book. If You Enjoy "Speak, Memory (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Speak, Memory (Paperback)" by Brian Boyd (Author) and Vladim...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary Bestsellers
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