Einstein’s Monsters
Author: Martin Amis
An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and ‘Einsteinian’ destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a ‘father of the nuclear age’; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love s….Read More
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