Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian ?migr? of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he decides to embark upon a ?perilous, daredevil project? ? an illegal attempt to reenter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds ? but at a terrible cost.?Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.? ? John Updik
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