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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
    Release Year
    1989
    ISBN
    9780679723431
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    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    0679723439
    ISBN-13
    9780679723431
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    195375

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Despair
    Number of Pages
    240 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Thrillers / Psychological, Literary, Noir
    Publication Year
    1989
    Genre
    Fiction
    Author
    Vladimir Nabokov
    Book Series
    Vintage International Ser.
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.6 in
    Item Weight
    7.2 Oz
    Item Length
    8 in
    Item Width
    5.2 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    88-040533
    Dewey Edition
    21
    Dewey Decimal
    813.5/4
    Synopsis
    The wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. * "A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed." - Newsweek "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." - John Updike "One of Mr. Nabokov's finest, most challenging and provocative novels." - The New York Times Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd genius, Hermann is one with such other heteroclitic neurotic Nabokovian creations as Humbert Humbert and Charles Kimbote. Rapt in his own reality, incapable of escaping or explicating it, he is as solitary in his abyss as Luzhin or Charlotte Haze of Lolita . Despair is illuminated throughout by the virtuosity and cunning wit that are Vladimir Nabokov's hallmarks., Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication-- Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
    LC Classification Number
    PG3476.N3O83 1989

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