Question

A line from this novel, which provides the title of a 2020 novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell, states “come and be worshiped, come and be caressed, my dark Vanessa.” One character from this novel, who has psychokinetic abilities, gets off a bus at Lochenhead following a double date before committing suicide. After leaving the city of Onhava in this novel, a man is pursued by an assassin who variously uses the aliases (*) Jack Degree and James de Grey. This novel describes the drowning of Hazel in a section that opens “I was the (10[1])shadow of a (10[1])waxwing slain.” In this novel, the university town of New Wye, Connecticut is home to a professor who often talks about the “distant northern land” of Zembla and who is (10[1])named Charles Kinbote. For 10 points, commentary on a 999 line poem by John Shade makes up most of what novel by Vladimir Nabokov? ■END■

ANSWER: Pale Fire
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2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%0%105.00