Transparent Things Foreign Language Study Butler illuminates the concrete ways

Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of "gender" collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction

a socially-prominent professor of psychology wants to obliterate his plucky young ex-lover with an SUV

As she plots to win the fabled Rose Crown

Her roof shakes

Transparent Things Foreign Language Study Butler illuminates the concrete waysTitle: Transparent Things Author: Vladimir Nabokov ISBN: 9780679725411 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Published: 1989 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reissue Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father