| Transparent Things Contributor(s): Nabokov, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679725415 ISBN-13: 9780679725411 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1989 Annotation: "Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." --Martin Amis |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89040143 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.15" W x 8" (0.28 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, aftermultiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis" |