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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
May 1, 1995
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679757931
ISBN-10
0679757937
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Original list price
$15.95
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Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin 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. 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 type writer producing King Lear."
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 type writer producing King Lear."
Editions
Hardcover
from Harmony Books (February 1, 1994)
9780517597026 | details & prices | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Essays discuss Salman Rushdie, John Lennon, the 1992 Republican convention, John Updike, J.
About: Essays discuss Salman Rushdie, John Lennon, the 1992 Republican convention, John Updike, J.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (May 1, 1995)
9780679757931 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $15.95
About: To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels.
About: To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels.
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