Description
| Product ID: | 9780099461876 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions |
| Authors: | Author: Martin Amis |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction, Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-04-07 |
