"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." --Martin Amis
Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Companies, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0070457344
ISBN-13
9780070457348
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127325574
Product Key Features
Book Title
Transparent Things
Author
Vladímir Nabokov
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
1972
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pz3.N121tr
Copyright Date
1972
Lccn
72-003989
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
20
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