Description: Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Luzhin Defense
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Psychological, Classics, Literary
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1990
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.4 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Vintage International Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
