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Amis, Martin Experience: A Memoir
New York, New York, U.S.A. Miramax Books / Hyperion 2000 0786866527 / 9780786866526 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Illustrated with photos. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 406 pages. Synopsis Perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of his generation, Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final crisis of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed nearly twenty years later from the back garden of Frederick West, Britain's most prolific serial murderers. Inevitably, too, the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, including a wealth of anecdotes along with memorable pen-portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, among others. The result is a remarkable work of autobiography -- profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest. As a writer's self-portrait, it is destined to become a classic of its kind. May 2000 - The Daily Telegraph Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting. Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life. Biography Martin Amis carried the nickname of enfante terrible of British literature far past his youthful debut at 24. His novels focus on excesses -- drugs, sex, money -- prompting Christopher Buckley to note in The New York Times in 1995 that his terrain is the junkyard of the human psyche and Mr. Amis is his generation’s top literary dog.
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Amis, Martin Night Train
New York, New York, U.S.A. Harmony Books 1997 0609601288 / 9780609601280 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Price inside dustcover: $20.00 - As the title might suggest, Martin Amis's new novel, Night Train, is swift and sometimes dark and mysterious as it surges forward with incredible speed. A captivating mystery of betrayal and deception, Night Train is somewhat of a departure for Amis, one of the world's most acclaimed novelists. This latest offering fuses all of his stylistic brilliance with the elements of a classic film noir mystery. Amis, an Englishman, has long been fascinated by American culture and dialogue, and Night Train benefits from this keen interest -- the language is dead-on and the landscape eerily familiar. Set in "Anytown, USA," Night Train perfectly captures the anxiety, paranoia, and entanglements that fuel a big-city police investigation. A 15-year veteran of the force, Detective Mike Hoolihan has risen from walking a beat to solving robberies to investigating homicides. She's seen it all, but one case -- this case -- has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop -- now top brass -- takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to "put the case down": suicide, case closed. But Colonel Tom asks Hoolihan to do the one thing any grieving father would ask -- take a second look. Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Combining brilliant wordplay and the elements of a classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.
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Amis, Martin Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 1995 0679757937 / 9780679757931 Trade Paperback Very Good
Very-good condition. NO remainder mark or clippings. Covers are clean, show light wear (NO tears). 274 pages. NO tears inside book. Tight spine. Pages show lsight tanning. 274 pages. 46 pages show writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. Synopsis To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear."
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