Nabokov's Dozen John Harvey At the Post Office

At the Post Office

There are signs of a violent struggle

She became one of the greatest blues singers the city had ever known - only to lose it all after being convicted of murdering her lover and producer

The homecoming is the subject of continuing speculation

brutality and fear

Nabokov's Dozen John Harvey At the Post OfficeThirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam