Summary
A new reissue series of Martin Amis’s novels to mark his 70th birthday
A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England’s finest fiction writers
‘I worked one hundred murders,’ says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. ‘In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned out to be suicides, accidentals or plain unattendeds. So I’ve seen them all- jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099748717 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099748711 |
| Author: | Martin Amis |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 1998 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Exhilarating…hugely enjoyable… Night Train, like everything Martin Amis has written, shines with disciplined linguistic exuberance in every syllable
Night Train is both delicate and bruising - a long drawn-out blue note. The book hangs around in the mind like smoke in a jazz club * Telegraph Magazine *
A virtuoso performance. Deliciously readable, highly polished… Mr Amis has created a quicksilver narrative that grabs the reader and refuses to let go * New York Times *
Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness * Time *
A work of dark romanticism, a tale of possession… prose crackling with wit and invention * New York Times Book Review *
Compelling… Night Train is an entertaining take on the American detective novel, a potent cocktail of violence and stylized dialogue flavoured by an unexpected existential twist * Globe and Mail *
Amis is arguably the greatest wordsmith living today, tossing of hundred-dollar words like spent matchsticks, with a scalding wit to go with it. Night Train is a tightly crafted and skilled work * Winnipeg Free Press *
About The Author
Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
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