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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov And Other Excursions

by Martin Amis
RM25.23 MYR RM17.92 MYR 29% off
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov And Other Excursions - Thryft
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov And Other Excursions - Thryft

Dazzling portraits of literary figures and cultural musings.

If you're intrigued by a writer's eye-view into the literary and cultural icons of a time, "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov And Other Excursions" could be right up your alley. Martin Amis isn't just another observer; he has the knack for cutting right to the heart of his subjects with wit and biting clarity. It’s a ringside seat to the minds and times of influential characters through a series of vivacious essays.

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov And Other Excursions

by Martin Amis
RM25.23 MYR RM17.92 MYR 29% off
ISBN: 9780140232745
Authors: Martin Amis
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Date of Publication: 1994-01-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Essays, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.7
(rated by 785 readers)

Description

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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