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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/04/2005
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ISBN: 9780099461876
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 208g
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RRP: £10.99
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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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/04/2005
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ISBN: 9780099461876
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 208g
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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"This collection reminds us of Amis's distinction and originality as a stylist"
James Wood, Times Literary Supplement
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"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
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"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
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"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
