The Defense

The DefenseBy: Vladimir Nabokov Series: Vintage International Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive

where his charm

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A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life

and the tragedies that shadowed his final years

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a world where kindness alternates with blinding cruelty and one has infinitely more to fear from one’s fellow prisoners than from the guards

while his brother travels south to Washington

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