# Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

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- Authors: [Martin Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9946-187-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2005-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.