Visiting Mrs Nabokov

First edition

Visiting Mrs Nabokov is a 1993 collection of non-fiction writing by the British author Martin Amis.

Essays

The pieces include book reviews and interviews Amis conducted with other authors, and occasional journalism that Amis wrote while working for The Observer, 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.

Title essay

The title essay details a day spent with Véra Nabokov, the wife of one of Amis's literary heroes, Vladimir Nabokov.

Reception

In The New York Times Book Review, 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?"[1]

References

  1. ^ Francine Prose, "Novelist at Large," The New York Times Book Review, February 27, 1994.

External links

  • Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review on Visiting Mrs Nabokov
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Martin Amis
Novels
  • The Rachel Papers (1973)
  • Dead Babies (1975)
  • Success (1978)
  • Other People: A Mystery Story (1981)
  • Money: A Suicide Note (1984)
  • London Fields (1989)
  • Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991)
  • The Information (1995)
  • Night Train (1997)
  • Yellow Dog (2003)
  • House of Meetings (2006)
  • The Pregnant Widow (2010)
  • Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012)
  • The Zone of Interest (2014)
  • Inside Story (2020)
Short story collections
Screenplays
  • Saturn 3 (1980)
  • London Fields (2018)
Non-fiction
Screen adaptations
  • The Rachel Papers (1989)
  • Dead Babies (2000)
  • Money (2010)
  • London Fields (2018)
  • The Zone of Interest (2023)
Miscellaneous


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