ADA, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Audio)
ISBN:
9781441873446 (1441873449)
Publish date: September 20th 2011
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
I came to a strange realization while reading this book: that practically every instance I can think of where an author used an unreliable narrator, it's always the same character: he's an intelligent, introspective guy with a slight cynical mean streak, a man with a fairly high opinion of himself (...
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There's no "or" about this book: it's Ada and ardour, and it's genius. All right, I'll admit that Mr Nabokov takes some getting into. Accessible he ain't. Delicious, however, delicious he is and this is like a perfect bread pudding: layers coming together to create something you don't know you'll ...
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