The War Against Cliché - Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A selection of writing spanning the past quarter-century, including pieces on Milton, Jane Austen, Nabokov and John Updike as well as Margaret Thatcher and Andy Warhol. The hardback edition was published to huge acclaim and his biography, )Experience( has sold in excess of 50,000 copies. Zusammenfassung Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris - and John Updike.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Amis, Amis Martin
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2002
• EAN: 9780099422228
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942222-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1970 to c 1979, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989