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Luzhin Defense

hardcoverJanuary 1, 2012
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ISBN-13: 9780141196930 ISBN-10: 0141196939
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 2012
Weight
0.8 lbs
Dimensions
19.50×2.40×12.80 cm

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Luzhin Defense by Nabokov, Vladimir. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780141196930.

Vladimir Nabokovs early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt "contains and diffuses the greatest warmth".