Martin Amis
2) Vintage Amis
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English
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A perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest modern writers who is equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography.
“Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.”—The Seattle Times
Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential...
“Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.”—The Seattle Times
Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable — and curiously touching — adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily for Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel — a girl who sorely tests the mettle of...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton, and more.
"[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache.... Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading...
"[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache.... Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading...
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