The Defense Sidelines ISBN: 9781419741876

ISBN: 9781419741876

ISBN: 9781914087059

as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert)

orphaned in childhood

Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence

The Defense Sidelines ISBN: 9781419741876Title: The Defense Author: Vladimir Nabokov ISBN: 9780679727224 Publisher: Vintage Published: 1990 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Edition Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to grandmaster, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality as he moves