Behind Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant and disturbing novel Lolita is a true story of a girl who was kidnapped and abused by a middle-aged man. Journalist Sarah Weinman new book is about The Real Lolita.
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When journalist Sarah Weinman first read Nobokov’s infamous novel Lolita, she was of course disturbed by the story of a 12-year-old girl kidnapped and abused by a middle-aged sexual predator. But she was also in awe of his brilliant prose. Years later Weinman learned of Sally Horner, a girl whose real-life case eerily paralleled Nobokov’s fiction. In a new book, Weinman tells Horner’s story, and asks how this true crime inspired Nobokov. She joins us Thursday to talk about The Real Lolita.
Sarah Weinman is a journalist and a crime fiction authority. Her new book is called The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World. [Indie bookstores|Amazon|Audible]