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

306 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced

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'Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948?'This aside by Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA turns out to be an indicator that, hidden in plain sight, a ...

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