num_pages: 288
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.
language: English
title: Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
titlecomplete: Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
genres: Essays, Criticism, Memoir, Short Stories, Literary Criticism, British Literature, Journalism, Literature, Nonfiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 773
publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd