Ada or Ardor
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780141181875
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Jun 2000
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
Nabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.
ISBN: 9780141181875
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Jun 2000
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
Nabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.
