The Original of Laura

My friend passed along this link to me a couple days ago to a New York Magazine article about Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura, his last uncompleted work.  I've read Pale Fire and Lolita by Nabokov and enjoyed both of them (well, as much as you can enjoy a storyline like Lolita's) & after reading that article, I have this sense in me at this moment that every second I spend not driving to a bookstore to buy it is another copy lost, and by the time I muster up the strength to get there, they'll all be gone.  So I just wanted to let all of you people who read my blog out there know that this book sounds like a must-read, or a must-own, anyway.  A lost gem that was stored away in a safety box at a bank for 30 years while Nabokov's family tried to make a decision about what they should do with the manuscript: burn it (which would be adhering to his wishes) or have it published.  I think Sam Anderson put it well in the article when he said, "I’m still undecided about the ethics of its publication. (In his gratingly arrogant introduction—about which probably the less said the better—Dmitri Nabokov offers no real justification for his decision.) But from a purely selfish standpoint, as a reader holding the book in my hands, I’m glad Nabokov was overruled."  I cannot completely agree yet, because I haven't held the book in my own hands, let alone read it, but I'm happy to have the opportunity.  And with that, I'm off to buy it before everyone else in the world reads my blog and goes out to buy it for themselves!