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Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
Martin Amis
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Description for Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
Paperback. Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099461876
SKU
9780099461876
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99-1
About Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his ... Read more
Reviews for Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more