Name: Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions (in English)
Price: 13.30 USD
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Author: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780679757931

portada Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martin Amis

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.45

ISBN13

9780679757931

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions (in English)

Martin Amis (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions (in English)"

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."

Martin Amis

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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) estudió en Oxford y debutó brillantemente como novelista con El libro de Rachel, galardonada en 1973 con el Premio Somerset Maugham, publicada en España (en 1985) por Anagrama. A lo largo de su trayectoria trabajó como guionista y varias de sus novelas fueron adaptadas para televisión. Es autor de relatos cortos, ensayos y novelas. Tiene dos libros de carácter autobiográfico: Experiencia y Koba el Temible. Su última obra fue Desde dentro.

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