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...side, Nabokov raced cars professionally. “The racing was his passion,” remembers Anne W. Elvins ’59, a former opera singer who used to host him at her Milan home...
...tenor and his wife if he could keep his car in their yard the night before a race at a nearby track. Come morning, the couple told him that he could take back his car—but only if he would abandon racing to devote himself entirely to opera...
...agreed. Nabokov had explored everything: academia and the racetrack, the opera house and mountains. But he still had his father’s literary legacy to surmount...
...several Ferraris, my handful of Dodge Vipers, and other occasional exotics.” But that pricey car collection is just his favorites; Nabokov has never been strapped for cash. “He was accustomed to moving in high circles,” Elvins, the former opera singer, says. “He was elegant and he demanded elegance in his lady friends...
After forays into the spheres of law, opera, and racing, Nabokov was finally drawn back to the bewitching allure of his father’s literary legacy...