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  Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (Paperback) By (author) Martin Amis

  

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  Short Description for Visiting Mrs NabokovMartin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 07 April 2005
  • Format: Paperback 274 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Miscellaneous Items
  • ISBN 13: 9780099461876 ISBN 10: 0099461870
  • Sales rank: 136,327

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• 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.