{"product_id":"visiting-mrs-nabokov-and-other-excursions-9780679757931","title":"Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions","description":"\u003cb\u003eA tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\"The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChess: \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e--John Updike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARTIN AMIS \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of 15 novels--among them \u003ci\u003eZone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Night Train\u003c\/i\u003e--along with the memoir \u003ci\u003eExperience, \u003c\/i\u003e the novelized self-portrait \u003ci\u003eInside Story\u003c\/i\u003e, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50916174266642,"sku":"9780679757931","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3a5c5aa-48e2-4d32-8a8b-72856eefdf7b.jpg?v=1771334509","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/visiting-mrs-nabokov-and-other-excursions-9780679757931","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}