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 novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

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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 novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

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Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark

by Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by Luke Daniels

Unabridged — 5 hours, 21 minutes

Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark

by Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by Luke Daniels

Unabridged — 5 hours, 21 minutes

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Overview

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.


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"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically." —John Updike

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"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written—that is, ecstatically."

Product Details

BN ID: 2940172349935
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication date: 02/20/2011
Edition description: Unabridged
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