Comment on Sarah Weinman's 'The Real Lolita': A girl is kidnapped in Camden, and a great novel is written

Sarah Weinman's 'The Real Lolita': A girl is kidnapped in Camden, and a great novel is written

In the gripping and heart-rending "The Real Lolita," Weinman paints a vivid picture of the notorious Sally Horner case and a wholly empathetic portrait of young Sally Horner. Weinman also connects the Horner case to Vladimir Nabokov's provocative 1955 modernist novel, "Lolita." Sally Horner of Camden may have been the "real" Lolita, or at least an important shaping influence.

 

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