Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century

Jenny Minton Quigley with Rebecca Lowman (Narrator), Marisol Ramirez (Narrator), Vikas Adam (Narrator), Paul Bellantoni (Narrator), Alexander Chee, Stacy Schiff, Susan Choi, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Robin Givhan, Lauren Groff, Morgan Jerkins, Claire Dederer, Aleksandar Hemon, Mary Gaitskill, Kira von Eichel, Victor LaValle, Ian Frazier, Emily Mortimer (Narrator), Sarah Weinman (Narrator), Bindu Bansinath (Narrator), Jessica Shattuck (Narrator), Erika L. Sánchez, Christina Baker Kline, Kate Elizabeth Russell (Narrator), Zainab Salbi (Narrator), Dani Shapiro (Narrator), Jim Shepard (Narrator), Sloane Crosley (Narrator), Roxane Gay (Narrator), Jill Kargman (Narrator), Andre Dubus III (Narrator), Cheryl Strayed (Narrator), Tom Bissell (Narrator), Laura Lippman (Narrator)

13 hours, 28 minutes first pub 2021 (editions)

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A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in th...

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challenging 62%
informative 59%
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emotional 37%
sad 14%
tense 14%
funny 7%
inspiring 7%
hopeful 3%

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