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      Transparent Things

      by Vladimir Nabokov
      Published
      Oct 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      128
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      The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife.

      "As casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. Nabokov's genius." -Mavis Gallant, The New York Times Book Review

      Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one person, to the silent histories they carry. Remarkable even in Nabokov's work for its depth and lyricism, Transparent Things is a small, experimental marvel of memories and dreams, both sentimental and malign.

      "The final effect is both chill and comic, the transparencies both beautiful and terrifying." —The Times (London)

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      General Fiction

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      Visionary & Metaphysical

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      First Edition Oct 1989 Vintage ISBN13 9780679725411 ISBN10 0679725415
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