Pale Fire

Another wholly different, baffling, brilliant book, full of word plays and tricky meanings. Man's life as commentary to abstruse / Unfinished poem, writes the old poet, John Shade, in a long, personal, old-man's poem about life and death. Shade (happily married) and Charles Kinbote (homosexual) are teachers at Wordsmith College. What Kinbote does with Shade's poem, after Shade's death, supplies the kernel of the story - that, and what his deed does to him; and the whole development with its odd perversions and symbolisms is at times marvellously funny, often poignantly tragic.

Softcover. English. Vintage. 1989. In fair/good condition. Book No: 195