Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
Author | : Martin Amis |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0679757937 |
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A tantalizing collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today. "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear."
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