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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 withAl Alvarez and David Mamet. To this tantalizing nonfiction collection, Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. 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 typewrite

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Author

Amis, Martin

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307777799

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.71 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14