{"product_id":"pale-fire-by-vladimir-nabokov-translated-by-john-shade","title":"Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by John Shade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLolita.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century.\" —Mary McCarthy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Group\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature—perfect tragicomic balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Spine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67582915313945,"sku":"1402044","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8399\/1833\/files\/palefire.webp?v=1790453518","url":"https:\/\/thespinebookshop.com\/products\/pale-fire-by-vladimir-nabokov-translated-by-john-shade","provider":"The Spine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}