Glory

Title: Glory
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction: 1693405
ISBN: 9780679727248
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.

"The themes we associate with Nabokov -- the romance of emigres, sexual frustration, the nostalgia of youth -- shine again, sorrowfully or blithely, but always adding an illuminating dimension to what went before or what comes after." -Kirkus Reviews

Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, Martin embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.