Pale Fire
Age band: 15+
Looky Rating System: Violence 3/5, Love & Romance 2/5, Mental Health 4/5, Language 2/5, Substance Use 1/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 2/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 2/5, Sci-Fi / Futuristic 1/5, Disability & Neurodiversity 0/5.
Description
In Pale Fire, Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade’s self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry, one-upmanship, and political intrigue. “This centaur work, half poem, half prose…is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth.