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

Jenny Minton

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
16 March 2021
Pages
464
ISBN
9781984898838

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

Jenny Minton

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.

A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on Vladimir Nabokov’s perennially provocative book-with original contributions from a stellar cast of prominent twenty-first century writers.

In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse-art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma-Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova.

Lolita in the Afterlife is edited by the daughter of Lolita’s original publisher in America.

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY Robin Givhan. Aleksandar Hemon. Jim Shepard. Emily Mortimer. Laura Lippman. Erika L. Sanchez. Sarah Weinman. Andre Dubus III. Mary Gaitskill. Zainab Salbi. Christina Baker Kline. Ian Frazier. Cheryl Strayed. Sloane Crosley. Victor LaValle. Jill Kargman. Lila Azam Zanganeh. Roxane Gay. Claire Dederer. Jessica Shattuck. Stacy Schiff. Susan Choi. Kate Elizabeth Russell. Tom Bissell. Kira Von Eichel. Bindu Bansinath. Dani Shapiro. Alexander Chee. Lauren Groff. Morgan Jerkins

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