Ada or Ardor
A FAMILY CHRONICLE
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 06 Apr 2000
£15.00
Synopsis
Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Nabokov's other great love story - offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's 'longest, richest, most ambitious novel' also becomes, as Brian Boyd says, a great many other things: 'myth, fairy tale, utopian idyll, family chronicle, personal memoir, historical romance, erotic catalogue ... picture gallery and filmic folly'.Reviews
Customer Review: 06 December 2004
Reviewer: Pat Anderson
Awesome. The kind of labrynthine epic that will have you finding new allusions and meanings with every read.
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'He derived from no other writers and leaves no true imitators' - Time
'His most gracious compliment to the United States was to merge it, in Ada, with the Russia of his memory to make one paradisal Antiterra' - John Updike
'His puns, echoes and chimes are not inserted currants but the texture of the pastry itself, and the resulting confection is a miraculous mille-feuille. Or, if you prefer, a madeleine' - Eric Korn in The Times Literary Supplement
'A real magician' - Paul Bailey in the Observer
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141181875
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 496
Published : 06 Apr 2000
Publisher : Penguin Classics
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Ada or Ardor
A FAMILY CHRONICLE
£15.00
