Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories By Vladimir Nabokov But other voices resound from

But other voices resound from the wreckage and their words

The neat compartments of his life are breaking down

Until one night when I make a catastrophic mistake

On Sarah's eleventh birthday

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period

Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories By Vladimir Nabokov But other voices resound fromThirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam