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Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

by Martin Amis (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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    Paperback 1994

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0099461870
ISBN 13: 9780099461876
Book Overview: 'Amis is a fantastically fluent decoder of the modern age - he is also one of its funniest' Independent

Media Reviews
This collection reminds us of Amis's distinction and originality as a stylist -- James Wood Times Literary Supplement Amis can out-sentence practically anyone. The firecracker returns of phrase are not just audacious, they're also accurate... Like Nabokov, Amis makes writing seem fun, serious fun -- Geoff Dyer Guardian Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there -- Rachel Cusk The Times A superb journalist... It is Amis's jaunty, appalled and always avid watchfulness that makes in this collection true and truly enjoayable... Visiting Mrs Nabokov is a suitcase full of treats -- John Banville Irish Times
Author Bio
Martin Amis is the author of thirteen previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most recently The Second Plane. He lives in New York.