Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions - Couverture rigide

Amis, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224038249 ISBN 13 : 9780224038249

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 274 pp, first edition

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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."

Revue de presse :

"This collection reminds us of Amis's distinction and originality as a stylist" (James Wood Times Literary Supplement)

"Amis can out-sentence practically anyone. The firecracker returns of phrase are not just audacious, they're also accurate... Like Nabokov, Amis makes writing seem fun, serious fun" (Geoff Dyer Guardian)

"Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there" (Rachel Cusk The Times)

"A superb journalist... It is Amis's jaunty, appalled and always avid watchfulness that makes in this collection true and truly enjoayable... Visiting Mrs Nabokov is a suitcase full of treats" (John Banville Irish Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0224038249
• ISBN 13: 9780224038249
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288