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Pale Fire

Pale Fire

Nabokov, Vladimir

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0679723420
ISBN13: 9780679723424
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 23 1989
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.05
Language: English
A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.

Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century. --Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group

An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature--perfect tragicomic balance.

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