Description: Irresistibly ironic, this chilling novel of folly and destruction is about a January to May romance between a sensitive, middle-aged man and a cretinous girl half his age.
Review Quotes: "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically."
--John Updike
--The New York Times "Both hilarious and deliciously cruel."
--The Guardian "A masterful short novel . . . an important precursor to Lolita."
--The New Yorker