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256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393609974
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 28 May 2019
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In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert offers a memorably brief account of his parents' death: "picnic, lightning." Picnic Comma Lightning, too, opens with death--that of Laurence Scott's mother--because, for a philosopher, death raises a p...
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256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393609974
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 28 May 2019
Description
In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert offers a memorably brief account of his parents' death: "picnic, lightning." Picnic Comma Lightning, too, opens with death--that of Laurence Scott's mother--because, for a philosopher, death raises a p...