The scintillating collection of essays, reportage, and criticism by one of the most provocative and widely read novelists of our time--with new commentary by the author.As a journalist, critic, and no
The definitive collection of essays and reportage written during the past thirty years from one of most provocative and widely read writers--with new commentary by the author.For more than thirty year
'Surely his masterpiece… Intelligent, terrifying and comic… Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows,
Newly arrived in the Zone of Interest - the name given to the outer perimeter of the camp at Auschwitz - Golo Thomsen, an official with important connections in Berlin, promptly and ill-advisedly fall
One of Time’s 100 best novels in the English language—by the acclaimed author of Lionel Asbo: State of England and London Fields Part of Martin Amis’s “London Trilogy,” along with the novel London Fie
Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the gre
'Scurrilous, shameless and very funny' - Times Literary SupplementCharles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twen
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classicHis most intimate and epic work to d
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in
A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald,Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot“Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp.Once upon a time there was a king, and th
Des Pepperdine is a boy out of place. He lives on the thirty-third floor of a London housing project; while his peers pick fights, Des retreats to the public library. What’s more, Des’s uncle and guar
A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel from one of our most distinctive voices in the English language. ?The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is sp
The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturb
A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of t
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 confusing country from many arresting angles, an
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single par
Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thou
The sequel to the author's acclaimed memoir Experience describes the role of communism in mid-twentieth-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on the
Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on
"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street JournalIn this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Martin Amis's The Information . We hope they will enrich your understanding of this b
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 con
She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his w
In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He
If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of A
London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. Th
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.
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 Amer
“The Mick Jagger of literature…Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction.” —Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph“[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction…Martin Amis has retai
A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Beh
