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1	Time's Arrow more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home...Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Money: A Suicide Note more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Porn freak and jetsetter, John Self, is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality and the obscenity of the money conspiracy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Amis gathers 14 pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Experience more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brillant instrument, dazzling readers with its energy and wit. His novels and short stories chart a world that is uniquely his: as John Updike puts it, 'Amis is trying to construct a large, reaching, ambitious set of books - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and American movies. He also comments pungently on a variety of literary works, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DON QUIXOTE, ULYSSES, LOLITA, and the writers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.91! \| first editions \| SVS
6	London Fields more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist In Amis's dark, Dickensian novel, Nicola Six is determined to kill herself while, at the same time, the fate of the Earth itself hangs by a thread. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Money more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis has created a thoroughly unlikable hero, John Self--movie producer, drunk, drugged exploiter of woman--and managed to make him into a sympathetic narrator. In addition to pursuing his vices with enthusiasm, Self spends his time roaming New York in order to find funding and actors for his latest epic and wondering whether his girlfriend ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis considers 20th-century politics in this meditation on the history of the left in England--a faction that included his father, Kingsley, until he changed his views in the mid-1960s; Martin Amis includes the last letter he wrote to his father, which questions the value of the communist ideal. He also offers some controversial opinions, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Night Train more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Amis's homage to and satire of the hard-boiled detective novel is told in the voice of an American policewoman who, in the best noir tradition, is faced with a tough case that will uncover truths that go far beyond who done it. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	House of Meetings more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "House of Meetings" is about one such liaison. It ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Experience: A Memoir more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis's amusing, insightful, and occasionally heartbreaking memoir does not flinch from tackling the difficult subjects in his life, including his relationship with his famous father, his troubled first marriage, his media-celebrity friends, and--not least--his new and much-publicized teeth. (Among other things, he compares his teeth to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.89! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Heavy Water and Other Stories more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Short stories by Martin Amis, three not published before, which range from science fiction set on Mars to a tale of poets in Hollywood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Information more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist THE INFORMATION is a satirical novel about literary rivalry. Richard Tull, the novel's narrator, is an unpublished novelist who has dedicated himself to the destruction of his old Oxford friend Gwyn Barry, also a novelist, who is meeting with much more success. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Dead babies more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist A parody of the well-to-do and indolent, set in an English country house over the course of a long weekend. When Celia and Quentin Villiers decide to have a few friends up to Appleseed Rectory for a few days, they do not expect the time of their lives--they are, after all, languid to the point of decadence and not much given to excitement over the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Rachel Papers more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist This coming-of-age tale--Amis's first novel--follows 19-year-old Charles Highway through the last few hours of his teenage years as he tries to make sense of his short but eventful life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Amis writes with sardonic perception about American places, writers, and other topics suggested by his extensive travels in the U.S. The book's title is from a phrase in Saul Bellow's HUMBOLDT'S GIFT. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Yellow Dog more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Sometime in the future, when the king of England is Henry IX, an actor and screenwriter named Xan Meo is beaten up on a London street by thugs who mumble something about JOSEPH ANDREWS, a 1742 novel by Henry Fielding. When Meo recovers, he is a changed man, and his formerly blissful marriage is seriously endangered. Joseph Andrews turns out to be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Success more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist 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. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Visiting Mrs.Nabokov and Other Excursions more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist An anthology of sharp-witted personal essays on topics including the 1992 Republican Convention, Graham Greene, and Madonna. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Time's Arrow, Or, the Nature of the Offence more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist The story of a life lived backwards in time. Its narrator, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. The novel was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Vintage Amis more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis's brilliant wit and unique perceptions are fully displayed in an excerpt from his memoir, Experience; the "Horrorday" chapter from "London Fields"; three short stories; two essays; and, for the first time in book form, "Porno's Last Summer." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Pornoland more books like this by Stefano Luigi (Photographer), Stefano de Luigi, Martin Amis (Introduction by) add to wishlist Luigi's images and Amis's words use respect, humor, and irony to tell the story of a rarely glimpsed world full of crude colors and harsh brutality, bodily contortions and bursts of laughter, unexpected tenderness and situations on the very edge of the absurd. see all copies from $4.20! new only from $4.20! \| first editions
23	God's dice more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Two sombre stories from "Einstein's Monsters". One is about a middle-aged Pole living in Ladbroke Grove whose wife is murdered in their flat while he's away for the weekend. The second is a strange tale about a puppy and a human community in a post-apocalyptic world. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $13.30! \| first editions
24 view cover	Einsteins Monsters more books like this by Amis add to wishlist An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny in 'Bujak and the strong force or God's Dice'. Maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in the 2020 (AD) epidemic of "The Time Disease", while a new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Other People more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist In Amis's mystery novel, the narrator is a young woman suffering from amnesia who gradually begins to believe that she had been murdered in her prior (i.e., pre-amnesia) life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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