Success
Author: Martin Amis
A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust’ ObserverSmooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex – sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed…..Read More
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Crash
Southpointe High is the last place Lucy wanted to wind up her senior year of school. Right up until she stumbles into Jude Ryder, a guy whose name has become… Continue Reading Posted in: Teenagers, Wales
The Information
Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Fiction, General, Literary Satire Fiction, Surrealist Literary Criticism
Heavy Water and Other Stories
In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit… Continue Reading Posted in: England, Literary Satire Fiction, U.S. Short Stories, United States
House of Meetings
An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis's standing as "a force unto himself," as "The Washington Post" has attested: "There is, quite simply, no one else like him." "House of… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Conjugal Visits, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Fiction
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