Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark (original 1932; edition 2006)

by Vladimir Nabokov, John Banville (Introduction)

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Title:	Laughter in the Dark
Authors:	Vladimir Nabokov
Other authors:	John Banville (Introduction)
Info:	New Directions (2006), Paperback, 308 pages
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Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov (1932)

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Nabakov is about as good as it gets, and Laughter in the Dark might be my favorite book of his so far. Awful things happening to thoroughly unlikeable people. (

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numbernine | Apr 4, 2013 |

Bello: la divertente rovina di un uomo. (

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Lorenzo_Giannini | Sep 10, 2012 |

Bello: la divertente rovina di un uomo. (

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Bello: la divertente rovina di un uomo. (

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Vladimir Nabokov	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Bergsma, Peter	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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De lach in het donker

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Камера Обскура

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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679724508, Paperback)

Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically." -- John Updike

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

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In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster.

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