The Defense
  • Published:
    Aug-1990
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    272
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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 As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates.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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    • First Edition
    • Aug-1990
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679727221
    • ISBN13: 9780679727224
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    • May-1970
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0399500634
    • ISBN13: 9780399500633



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