{"product_id":"pnin","title":"Pnin","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePnin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eVladimir Nabokov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780679723417\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1989\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, \u003ci\u003ePnin\u003c\/i\u003e features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and published in book form in 1957, \u003ci\u003ePnin\u003c\/i\u003e brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfessor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInitially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | Paperback | 9780679723417 | New | Fiction 1693414","offer_id":50817001292034,"sku":"1693414","price":44.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71IWanVB8UL.jpg?v=1792501890","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/pnin","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}