Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions by Martin Amis

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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions

by Martin Amis

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Info:	Penguin Books Ltd (1994), Paperback, 288 pages
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What a pleasant discovery this book was - Martin Amis as a journalist. Amusing and surprising. Astute and natural in his description. I liked it very much. (

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From the author of Time's Arrow and London Fields comes a book that covers politics, literature, and sports while offering felicitous summations of Ronald Reagan, the murder of John Lennon, Madonna, and more. "Amis is . . .a force unto himself . . .There is, quite simply, no one else like him."--Washington Post Book World.

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