The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece - Sarah Weinman - Books - HarperCollins - 9780062661937 - September 10, 2019
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The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece

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"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." --David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.

Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.

Sally Horner's story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.

336 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 10, 2019
ISBN13 9780062661937
Publishers HarperCollins
Pages 336
Dimensions 135 × 203 × 23 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  

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