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Novelist and critic David Lodge, who has himself written on Nabokov, reviews THE LETTERS OF KINGSLEY AMIS (who didn't much like VN and whom VN took a pot shot at in ADA [Sig Lemansky?]), and EXPERIENCE, a memoir by Kingsley's son, novelist Martin (who likes VN quite a lot ) in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT of May 26, 200, pp.25-27.
Martin confesses that he rarely smiled for the camera because of his bad teeth which have now been redone at great cost and with prolonged pain. Lodge writes; "Embedded in EXPERIENCE is a wonderful mini-essay about the dental deficiences of the two literary predecessors Martin most admires, James Joyce and Nabokov. 'I claim peership with these masters in only one area. Not in the art and not in the life. Just in the teeth.' "
Martin confesses that he rarely smiled for the camera because of his bad teeth which have now been redone at great cost and with prolonged pain. Lodge writes; "Embedded in EXPERIENCE is a wonderful mini-essay about the dental deficiences of the two literary predecessors Martin most admires, James Joyce and Nabokov. 'I claim peership with these masters in only one area. Not in the art and not in the life. Just in the teeth.' "