Cleaning Nabokov’s House
by Leslie Daniels (Touchstone)
If you’ve ever moved into a place before evidence of the previous residents has been expunged, maybe you can identify with what happens to Barb Barrett in Daniels’ debut novel. After leaving a lousy marriage and losing custody of her kids, Barb rents an upstate house where author Vladimir Nabokov once lived. There, she discovers what she thinks (and hopes) is a lost Nabokov manuscript — about Babe Ruth. The author actually does live in a house where the author of “Lolita” once lived, but, in real life, she says, “Nabokov exists only in the copies of his books on my shelves.”
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Nabokovilia: Cleaning Nabokov's House
From the New York Post's Required Reading (via the Nabokv-L forum):
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