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Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-09-946187-6
  • EAN
  • 9780099461876
  • Genres
  • essays, criticism, literature, journalism, memoir, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 2005