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Book Title
Pnin
Publication Name
Pnin
Title
Pnin
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0679723412
EAN
9780679723417
ISBN
9780679723417
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Release Year
1989
Release Date
18/06/1989
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Series
Vintage International
Publication Year
1989
Topic
Classics, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. "Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect." -- Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679723412
ISBN-13
9780679723417
eBay Product ID (ePID)
341064

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pnin
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3527.A15p59 1989
Reviews
"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike "Has there ever been a better novel written about a fumbling Russian émigré?" -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends "Hilariously funny and of a sadness." -- Graham Greene, acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The End of the Affair "Pnin's vita, though its essence is saintliness, is yet a work of brilliant magic and fabulous laughter." -- The New Republic "Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect." -- Chicago Tribune "Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way the masters can--to laughter that is near to tears." -- The Guardian
Copyright Date
1989
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
88-040527
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by us_El0upQ7-@Deleted
    Apr 10, 2015

    Good book and great value for the money.

    Needed to read this book for one of the classes. It's about a hapless and absent-minded professor who was an immigrant to this country. The book shows how difficult for the older people to adjust to a new society and new life in a foreign country, especially when the language skills are poor. Nabokov's language is exquisite!

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