'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,
'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
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 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
"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
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
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.
