Glory

Description

‘In general Glory is my happiest thing.’ ‘The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one’s chest, or in the casual vision of Martin’s mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future that the reader can only guess at, even after he has raced through the last seven chapters where a regular madness of structural twists and a masquerade of all characters culminate in a furious finale, although nothing much happens at the very end – just a bird perching on a wicket in the greyness of a wet day’ – Vladimir Nabokov

• Author: Vladimir Nabokov
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Published: 2012-03-01
• Pages: 229
• ISBN-13: 9780718192853