"Vera" is the "utterly romantic" ("New York" magazine) story of the 52-year marriage between Vladimir Nabokov, one the 20th century's most original writers, and a woman with an intellect and devotion to literature equal to her husband's.
Awards
Winner of Pulitzer Prize Biography Category 2000.
Reviews
"A sensitive rendering of one of the century's great love stories."--Mirabella " I am truly in love with this book. Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast."--Anita Shreve " An absorbing story, illumined by Schiff's flair for the succinct insight." --The New York Times Book Review " Vera is an astonishingly fine book--a tale told with wit and elegance, a tale that succeeds in encompassing both the intimacy of a marriage and the sweep of history. I found it a great pleasure to read. And I'm in awe of Stacy Schiff's talent."--Jonathan Harr
