Real Lolita

The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

320 pages

English language

Published April 10, 2018 by Knopf Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-7352-7273-6
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"In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.

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Subjects

  • Kidnapping
  • Child abuse
  • Women, crimes against
  • Nabokov, vladimir vladimirovich, 1899-1977