Summary
A new reissue series of Martin Amis’s novels to mark his 70th birthday
“A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust” - Observer
Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed. Meanwhile, Gregory’s foster bro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099461852 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099461854 |
| Author: | Martin Amis |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Beautifully constructed to make a coherent, powerful and still fairly unusual statement about changing English society
Beautifully constructed to make a coherent, powerful and still fairly unusual statement about changing English society * Evening Standard *
An instantly recognizable voice, penetrating, loquacious, slightly hysterical, upsetting, rising above the basso pseudo-profundo babble of his competitors like filed fingernails scraping down glass - Martin Amis is a dazzling phrasemaker * Sunday Times *
Amis pulls off his literary feat with panache * Spectator *
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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