Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - Paperback Samuel Hopkins Adams in California's San Joaquin Valley

in California's San Joaquin Valley

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In luminous and hallucinated language

humor and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - Paperback Samuel Hopkins Adams in California's San Joaquin ValleyCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Blurb: The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the