Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions Martin Amis (Paperback)

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.