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Item Details
Title:
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VISITING MRS NABOKOV AND OTHER EXCURSIONS
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By: |
Martin Amis |
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Electronic book text |
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1446401677 |
ISBN 13: |
9781446401675 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 December, 2010 |
Pages: |
288 |
Description: |
Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, the author provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John Updike - warts and all. Zipping across to Washington, he exposes the double-think of nuke-speak; in New Orleans the Republican Convention gets a going over. |
Synopsis: |
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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UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
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Non-returnable |
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