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The Defense: Previously published as The Luzhin Defense (Large Print Edition)

The Defense: Previously published as The Luzhin Defense (Large Print Edition)

Nabokov, Vladimir

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0679727221
ISBN13: 9780679727224
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 11 1990
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness.

As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.

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