The Magician's Doubts
"This is a fine example of an endangered species: the full-length book of literary criticism dedicated to the appreciation and interpretation of a single author, addressed to the general reader. . . . ReadingThe Magician's Doubts, we re-experience and recover . . . pleasures of Nabokov's texts we may have forgotten or overlooked."--David Lodge,The New York Times Book Review"Wood's book is so thronged with pleasures, so acute in its insights, so replete with clear thoughts limpidly expressed, that one could. . . write a review of it consisting entirely of quotations from the text. . . . [It] offers us an entirely new set of insights into the work of a modern master."--John Banville,The New York Review of Books