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Martin Amis
Book List in Order: 26 titles
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The Rachel Papers
- May-1974
- / Romance
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Martin Amis’s first novel, The Rachel Papers, tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university.Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical Oxford student and soon-to-be Great Novelist, sp...
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Other People
- Jun-1981
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"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME) gives us a metaphysical literary mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and odd...
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Brian De Palma: The Movie Brute
- 1984
- / Science Fiction
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cutting-edge fiction has never sliced so deeply Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge continues...
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The Murderee
- Jan-1988
- / Literary
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Featured story is "The Murderee," by Martin Amis. Other contributors include: Raymond Carver Tess Gallagher Todd McEwen John Berger Angela Carter Don DeLillo Also included is "Death in Gibraltar," by Ian Jack...
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Einstein's Monsters
- Mar-1990
- / General Fiction
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A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; ...
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Dead Babies
- Apr-1991
- / General Fiction
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Dead Babies, a hilarious Agatha Christie parody and Martin Amis’s second novel, was deemed his “most incendiary” (the BBC).Within the quiet walls of the Appleseed Rectory, a gorgeous five-bedroom, three-story home in rural England, anything goe...
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London Fields
- Apr-1991
- / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction -- from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME)....
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The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
- Apr-1991
- / General Fiction
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A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that co... -
Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense
- Oct-1992
- / General Fiction
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In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” -- Time Out), finds a chillingly origin...
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The Information
- Mar-1996
- / Suspense
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Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal -- they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer?"Satirical and tend...
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Night Train
- Jan-1998
- / Suspense
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New York Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. Mike is a woman with a nicotine voice, dyed blond hair and is an alcoholic who had been abused by her father. The victim is Jennifer Rockwell, who Mike had known si...
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Heavy Water and Other Stories
- Jun-1999
- / General Fiction
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A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation"Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time." ...
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Yellow Dog
- Nov-2003
- / General Fiction
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A brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell novel about a family man who is attacked in a garden and suddenly becomes an anti-husband and anti-father, from "one of the greatest novelists of his generation" (TIME)“Amis is a stone-solid genius....
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Vintage Amis
- Jan-2004
- / Literary
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A perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest modern writers who is equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography. “Amis throws off more provocative ideas and imag...
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House of Meetings
- Jan-2007
- / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel set in 1946, starring two brothers and a Jewish girl who fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow -- from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (...
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The Pregnant Widow
- Sep-2008
- / Literary
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change. "A nearly perfect co...
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Lionel Asbo: The State of England
- Aug-2012
- / Literary
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An exuberant, acidic satire of modern society and celebrity culture--by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Young Desmond Pepperdine desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love. Unfortunately for him, he's the ward of his...
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The Zone of Interest
- Oct-2014
- / Literary
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Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn’t show you your reflection. It showed you your soul -- it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn’t look at i...
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Inside Story
- Sep-2020
- / General Fiction
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An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die -- from “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction” (T...
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Experience
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels.“Superb memoir...a moving account of [Amis’s] coming of age as an artist and ...
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