NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both ldquomonumentalrdquoThe Boston Globe and ldquoutterly romanticrdquoNew York magazine Stacy Schiffrsquos Veacutera Mrs Vladimir Nabokov brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time Vladimir Nabokovmdashthe eacutemigreacute author of Lolita Pale Fire and Speak Memorymdashwrote his books first for himself second for his wife Veacutera and third for no one at all ldquoWithout my wiferdquohe once noted ldquoI wouldnrsquot have written a single novelrdquoSet in prewar Europe and postwar America spanning much of the century the story of the Nabokovsrsquofifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel Veacutera both beautiful and brilliant is its outsized heroinemdasha woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy Stacy Schiffs Veacutera is a triumph of the biographical formFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
