Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
Author: Amis, Martin
ISBN: 9780099461876
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jun 2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;Amis is a fantastically fluent decoder of the modern age - he is also one of its funniestP#39; Plt;iPgt;IndependentPlt;/iPgt;
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 thereP#39;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. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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.
ISBN: 9780099461876
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jun 2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;Amis is a fantastically fluent decoder of the modern age - he is also one of its funniestP#39; Plt;iPgt;IndependentPlt;/iPgt;
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 thereP#39;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. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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.
