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1	Money: A Suicide Note more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $5.43! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Time's Arrow more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $6.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Experience more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	London Fields more books like this by Martin Amis The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Taking a small pocket of time and a richly diverse part of London, Martin Amis dissects the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Night Train more books like this by Martin Amis Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American Policewoman, a police in cop parlance, begins to investigate the suspicious death of Jennifer, a police colleague's daughter. The evidence swings towards suicide - the gun in her hand, the suicide note, the secret history of depression and drug addiction, and then swings away - tree shots to the head; could be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Rachel Papers more books like this by Martin Amis Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Money more books like this by Martin Amis This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Heavy Water and Other Stories more books like this by Martin Amis Martin Amis's short stories make his novels look prim. They are also more frankly satirical. Whole words are created - or inverted. In "Straight Fiction", everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in "Career Moves", screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 more books like this by Martin Amis This is a stunning collection of essays. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Information more books like this by Martin Amis This work presents a devastating satire of literary life, as the unpublished and unpublishable Richard Tull plots the downfall of his stratospherically successful friend and fellow novelist Gwyn Barry. How can one writer hurt another where it really counts - his reputation? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	House of Meetings more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Success more books like this by Martin Amis 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
13 view cover	Yellow Dog more books like this by Martin Amis When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Other People more books like this by Martin Amis When she awakes and realizes she is all right - that Time is starting again - it seems fitting that she should be lying on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice has told her she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? The first hours are the strangest. She knows nothing and listens to ordinary people for clues, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Dead babies more books like this by Martin Amis Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Einsteins Monsters more books like this by Martin Amis 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
18 view cover	Visiting Mrs. Nabokov more books like this by Martin Amis From the author of Time's Arrow and London Fields comes a book that covers politics, literature, and sports while offering felicitous summations of Ronald Reagan, the murder of John Lennon, Madonna, and more. "Amis is . . .a force unto himself . . .There is, quite simply, no one else like him".--Washington Post Book World. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America more books like this by Martin Amis At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. Included in a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Visiting Mrs. Nabokov & Other Excursions more books like this by Martin Amis These essays by Martin Amis provide portraits of contemporaries and mentors: Larkin and Rushdie, Burgess, Ballard, Nicholson Baker and John Updike. From across the Atlantic, he exposes the double-think of nuke-speak in Washington and the dementia of a Republican convention in New Orleans. And then there is sport. Checking out darts' disastrous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Vintage Amis more books like this by Martin Amis 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	Experience: A Memoir more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Time's arrow, or The nature of the offence. more books like this by Martin Amis 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
24 view cover	The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom more books like this by Martin Amis 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 $8.30! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Other People: 2a Mystery Story more books like this by Martin Amis 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! signed copies \| first editions

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