Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
A new book from internationally celebrated author Martin Amis.
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Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions Paperback ISBN: 9780099461876 Published: 01/06/2005 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 288 pages Subject: Prose: non-fiction $19.95 RRP
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Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions EBook ISBN: 9781446401675 Published: 01/08/2011 Imprint: Vintage Digital Extent: 288 pages Subject: Prose: non-fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John Updike - warts and all. Vigorously zipping across to Washington, he exposes the double-think of nuke-speak; in New Orleans the Republican Convention gets a going over. And then there's sport: he visits the world of darts and its disastrous attempt to clean itself up; dirty tricks in the world of chess; and some brisk but vicious poker with Al Alvarez and David Mamet. Sex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court with Gabriela Sabatini, this is Martin Amis at his electric best.
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