Nabokov in America

A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in a land that enchanted him, America.The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined-as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the...