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Title: Despair
Condition: New
EAN: 9780141184548
ISBN: 9780141184548
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 11/30/2000
Language: English
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 9mm
Item Weight: 134g
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN-10: 014118454X
Description:

'A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy' Martin Amis, The Times

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelgänger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.

Filled with impudent, startling humour, and dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a killer who thinks himself an artist, Despair takes us into a deranged world of doubles and illusions, where nothing is quite as it seems.

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