Title: Martin Amis. 4 books (LIT) Author(s): Martin Amis Pages: 750 Publisher: Publication date: Language: English Format: LIT ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Description: List:
Money.lit
Night Train.lit
Other People.lit
Time's Arrow.lit
Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a English novelist. He is the author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature, particularly Money (1986) and London Fields (1989), and the creator of several of fiction's most memorable characters since Charles Dickens.
Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive style, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style ... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."
Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition and the excesses of late-capitalist Western society with its grotesque caricatures. He is thus sometimes portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness."
Title: Martin Amis. 4 books (LIT)