The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work.
By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel\'s creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic..
Sally Horner\'s story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves.
Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.
Weaving together suspenseful Crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner\'s full story for the very first time.
And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. --David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon Vladimir Nabokov\'s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time.
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.
The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work
