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
'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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
