The Emperor of Ocean Park is a triumphant work of fiction
Rip learns he has been away from the village for at least twenty years
the moral reality is changing
An elaborate stunt - but whose
Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all
Nabokov's Dozen Christina Dalcher The Emperor of Ocean ParkThirteen 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