Ada by Vladimir Nabokov [FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1970 • Fawcett Crest

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK PRINTING [1970] FAWCETT CREST

*Rare 1st U.S. mass market printing w/ psychedelic cover art.

Vintage paperback in very good condition.

Clean, tight and hardly read copy with some trace creasing to spine. 

Cover wraps are beautiful; light shelf wear and a chipped corner to upper front. 

Pages are clean and read as new with some inevitable tanning to pages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. 

Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Nabokov's longest, richest novel is a love story, but also a fairy tale, a historical parody, an erotic satire, an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination.