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Experience by Martin Amis
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kinsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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. "Hou ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction
A magisterial, inventive and witty modern classic - Amis' autobiographical novel and arguably his most important masterpiece to date - the companion volume to EXPERIENCE 'The Mick Jagger of literature' Daily TelegraphLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere ...Show more
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines by Martin Amis
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Category: Film & Music
Back in a facsimile edition is Martin Amis's closet passion project, first published in 1982: a compulsive gamer's guide to arcades and beating your younger self's high score In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a genera ...Show more
London Fields by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction
London Fields is Martin Amis' murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts, or the rich ...Show more
Money - A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 mor ...Show more
The Information by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction
How can one writer hurt another where it really counts? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival Gwyn Barry. Revenger's tragedy, comedy of errors, contemporary satire, "The Information" is an extraordinary novel of dark humor and piercing insigh ...Show more
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism toward ...Show more
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction
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.
The Rachel Papers: 50th Anniversary Edition by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare.Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he me ...Show more
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
The Rub of Time - Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump and Other Pieces 1986-2016 by Martin Amis
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more