Book description
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 with Al
Alvarez and David Mamet.
Sex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should
have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court with Gabriela
Sabatini, this is Martin Amis at his electric best.
Martin Amis is the author of thirteen previous novels, the memoir
Experience
, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most
recently
The Second Plane
. He lives in New York.
