About this book
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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Reader reviews
Josh80/100
Reading Nabokov always makes me wish I were smarter because he makes you feel like there's something absolutely incredible under the (admittedly very nice) surface. This can be a pleasant feeling, but it can also be disappointing when you scratch the surface and find that what's underneath doesn't live up to what you had imagined (how could it?)
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