Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, memory

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Nabokov's Memoir -- Childhood and Memory -- Exile -- Scales of Mattering -- The Soul Inside the Sentence -- Metaphor -- Family Photos -- The Muse Visits -- The Collector -- "The old Questions: There's Nothing Like Them" -- The Shape of a Life -- The Persistence of Memory -- Persona and Person -- Coda: Concluding Unscientific Postscript -- Speak, Memory -- Codoa Fact-Checking the Memoirist.
Summary, etc.:	"Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory is one of the most critically acclaimed memoirs of the twentieth century. In this classic account of his life, Nabokov writes about his idyllic Russian childhood in an aristocratic family, the Bolshevik revolution that led to his exile from Russia, and the path that would eventually lead him to live in America. In the latest volume in Ig's Bookmarked series, celebrated author and critic Sven Birkerts writes about how Speak, Memory not only intersects with various central life-concerns (exile, serendipity and coincidence, childhood, literary redemption), but is also vital to understanding the workings of memory in literature"--Back cover.