Vladimir Nabokov

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Required Reading
By BILLY HELLER
Last Updated: 10:52 PM, February 26, 2011
Posted: 10:48 PM, February 26, 2011

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Cleaning Nabokov’s House

by Leslie Daniels (Touchstone)

If you’ve ever moved into a place before evidence of the previous residents has been expunged, maybe you can identify with what happens to Barb Barrett in Daniels’ debut novel. After leaving a lousy marriage and losing custody of her kids, Barb rents an upstate house where author Vladimir Nabokov once lived. There, she discovers what she thinks (and hopes) is a lost Nabokov manuscript — about Babe Ruth. The author actually does live in a house where the author of “Lolita” once lived, but, in real life, she says, “Nabokov exists only in the copies of his books on my shelves.”

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