This lovely softcover edition is in good condition and shows only minimal shelf wear. Without my wife, he once noted, I wouldn’t have written a single novel. Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine, a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form. Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography.