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  1. Martin Amis _ Experience: A Memoir

    What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense {where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite}, but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.
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