Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions (Vintage International) - Softcover

Amis, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679757937 ISBN 13: 9780679757931

Verlag: Vintage, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Amis Martin

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Reseña del editor:

To this tantalizing nonfiction collection 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."

Biografía del autor:

Martin Amis is the best-selling author of several books, including London Fields, Money, The Information, and, most recently, Experience. He lives in London.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679757937
• ISBN 13: 9780679757931
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288