TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nabokov,Vladimir Vladimirovich
AU  - Scammell,Michael
TI  - The defense: a novel 
SN  - 0679727221 :
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Chess
KW  - Fiction
N1  - "Originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1964."; "This work appeared originally in The New yorker."; Translation of: Zashchita Luzhina
N2  - As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent's unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault
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