Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
Author(s): Martin Amis
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.
1993, First edition, first printing. A near fine copy only marked by light edge rubbing of the boards. The d/w is fine and unclipped.
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- : jonathan cape
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- : 0.496
- : 01 October 1993
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- : 274
- : 824.914
- : Hardback
- : Martin Amis