The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

Sarah Weinman

7 hours, 26 minutes first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

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"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." --David Grann, author of Kil...

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informative 76%
dark 71%
sad 58%
emotional 42%
challenging 28%
reflective 26%
tense 16%
mysterious 8%
adventurous 1%

Pace

medium 64%
slow 25%
fast 10%

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