Books 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 ... More

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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. ... More

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Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has ... More

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The narrator of Martin Amis's uproarious first novel is at once a cynical lecher and an abject victim of puppy love--one of the most believable and ... More

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A devastating satire of literary life, as the unpublished and unpublishable Richard Tull plots the downfall of his stratospherically successful ... More

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Gregory's life is a series of effortless conquests. Sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed ... More

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In this wildly ambitious and funny novel, one of England's brilliant young writers relates two murders in the making. The first is the self ... More

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Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses ... More

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With mixed feelings of wonder and trepidation, the brilliant British writer Martin Amis approaches America and introduces this sharp and thoroughly ... More

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Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays ... More

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Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brillant instrument, ... More

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Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the ... More

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In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' ... More

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The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, the author explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of ... More

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When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers a head-injury, and personality-change. Like a ... More

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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 ... More

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From the author of THE INFORMATION. A female officer is asked to investigate the apparent suicide of a beautiful and talented astrophysicist, but ... More

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A collection of five stories written over a period of two years with an introductory essay. From the author of HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES, ... More

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Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into ... More

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These essays by Martin Amis provide portraits of contemporaries and mentors: Larkin and Rushdie, Burgess, Ballard, Nicholson Baker and John Updike. ... More

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A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Amis gathers 14 pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative ... More

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What an amnesiac young woman discovers about her violently erased past is only one of the riddles in this eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes ... More

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"Super-charged, anarchic and full of narrative acrobatics, "Money" burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators and devotees ... More

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In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the 1970's sexual ... More

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In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves ... More

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