Publisher's Synopsis
The two-volume set is made up of "The Russian Years" and "Nabokov: The Amercian Years". Both volumes draw on diaries, letters and manuscripts, on archival research in the Soviet Union, Europe and North America and on interviews with Nabokov's family, friends, colleagues, students - on everyone from an ex-fiancee to babysitter and concierges.;Vladimir Nabokov was uprooted from his aristocratic lifestyle by the Russian Revolution and fled to impoverishment in France, escaping from Hitler's Germany to finding a home in America and critical and commercial success - and censure - with the publication of "Lolita".
