{"product_id":"pale-fire","title":"Pale Fire","description":"\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eLolita.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Group\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0679723420\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780679723424\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Nabokov, Vladimir\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 1989)","offer_id":46081357086917,"sku":"9780679723424","price":15.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780679723424.jpg?v=1776045168","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/pale-fire","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}