Laughter in the Dark; Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: New Directions Edition:Third Printing Year: 1978 Description: NF, 292 pp.; New Directions first paperback edition; third printing 1978 (stated); One of Nabokov's early novels written in Russian published in 1932. It is about Albinus, a respectable middle-aged man and an aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a woman half his age: Margo 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, deciet, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin during the 1930's.---Wikipedia ; minor warping; Vladimir Nabokov b.1899 - d.1977 Author: Vladimir Nabokov