MixedThe GuardianStacy Schiff chronicles this welding [of the Nabokovs] with admiring warmth ... The overall contours of Nabokov\'s biography have been available for some time. The secondary literature on his vexed but ultimately imperial dealings with publishers, agents, translators and the media is already extensive. Schiff\'s handsomely written portrait provides fresh angles of incidence, but not very much that is new.
