King, Queen, Knave

Vladimir Nabokov author Dmitri Nabokov translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:22nd Feb '01

Should be back in stock very soon

King, Queen, Knave cover

'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge

'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King,Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

ISBN: 9780141185774

Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm

Weight: 213g

288 pages