THE UNREAL LIFE OF SERGY NABOKOV

THE UNREAL LIFE OF SERGY NABOKOV
Paul Russell

In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia to the halls of Cambridge University and the salons of Paris. But it is the honesty and vulnerability of Sergey, our young gay narrator, that hook the reader: his stuttering childhood in the shadow of his brilliant brother, his opium-fuelled evenings with Cocteau, and his troubled love life on the margins of the Ballets Russes and its legendary cast. 

382 pages, paperback