Laughter in the dark:

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...

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Main Author: Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievič 1869-1922 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: New York New Directions 2006
Edition:Reissued, with a new introd., as New Directions paperbook
Series:A new directions paperbook 1045
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Originally published: 1960. With new introd.
Physical Description:XI, 292 S.
ISBN:0811216748
9780811216746

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