Vladimir Nabokov the American Years
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Published: December 2, 1993
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 784
ISBN-13: 9780099962304
First sentence: NABOKOV had left Russia in 1919 on a crowded little cargo ship, playing chess with his father on its deck as Bolshevik machine guns strafed the waters of Sebastopol harbor.