Koba the Dread - Laughter and the Twenty Million

Informationen zum Autor Martin Amis Klappentext Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience , two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York. Zusammenfassung Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Amis, Amis Martin
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2003
• EAN: 9780099438021
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943802-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Vintage Pbk; Vintage Pbk
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Sowjetunion (ehemalige) : Geschichte, Stalin, Josef W., European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet