Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
Encyclopedia
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov is a 1993 collection of non-fiction writing by the British author Martin Amis
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, The Guardian
, and other publications during his early career as a writer. Among the authors that Amis profiles are Anthony Burgess
, Graham Greene
, J.G. Ballard and John Updike
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, novelist and critic Francine Prose
wrote, "The essays in "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov" are bright; they move quickly; they don't ask much of us, or offend. And isn't that just what we're looking for?"
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money and London Fields . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year...
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Essays
The pieces include book reviews and interviews Amis conducted with other authors, and occasional journalism that Amis wrote while working for The ObserverThe Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, and other publications during his early career as a writer. Among the authors that Amis profiles are Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
, Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...
, J.G. Ballard and John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....
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Title essay
The title essay details a day spent with Vera Nabokova, the wife of one of Amis' literary heroes Vladimir NabokovVladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
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Reception
In The New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...
, novelist and critic Francine Prose
Francine Prose
Francine Prose is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991....
wrote, "The essays in "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov" are bright; they move quickly; they don't ask much of us, or offend. And isn't that just what we're looking for?"