Author: | Vladimir Nabokov | ISBN: | 9780307787675 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | February 16, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
ISBN: | 9780307787675 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication: | February 16, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage |
Language: | English |
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.