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Laughter
in the Dark (A Revived Modern Classic)
by
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Book
Description
Nabokov
writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically."
-- John Updike
Albinus,
a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons
his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become
a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American
movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly
sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and
deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in
the 1930s. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Ingram
Irresistibly ironic, this chilling novel of folly and destruction
is about a January to May romance between a sensitive, middle-aged
man and a cretinous girl half his age.
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