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Phoebe Ephron produced a busy sisterhood of scribblers. Amy, the youngest, a novelist, admits, "I wasn't exactly encouraged to be a landscape painter." Only Hallie, the third daughter, has not tried her hand at fiction. (She is a computer programmer...
...clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft and come to know and enjoy who he is and what he came from...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
...clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft and come to know and enjoy who he is and what he came from...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of , the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...