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Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099461876

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 208g

  • RRP: £10.99

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099461876

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 208g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • 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 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

  • 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

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About the Author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.

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