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Bend Sinister

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Bend Sinister
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  • Category: Fiction - Literary
  • Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
  • On Sale: April 14, 1990
  • Price: $14.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-72727-9 (0-679-72727-2)
Bend Sinister
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679727279
Our Price: $14.95
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ABOUT THIS BOOK

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state.  Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.  In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.

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