When Richard Tull, frustrated, failed novelist invited to tour America with this oldest friend, internationally bestselling novelist Gwyn Barry, to record the event, his envy and humiliation are complete. He sets out to gather the information that will destroy his best friend and pull his career down around his ears. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the, both men are being watched by a psychopathic ex-con and a young thug who have staked out their homes--watching their wives, watching Richard's small boys, the twins--waiting until the time is right...
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"Mr. Amis is his generation's top literary dog...Dazzling...You're never out of reach of a sparkly phrase, stiletto metaphor or drop-dead insight into the human condition...Mr. Amis goes where other humorists fear to tread...Look out, Flaubert! Look out, Joyce!" --The New Your Times Book Review
"This is Amis' best work to date...Funny, angry, caustic and brilliant." --The Montreal Gazette
"Talent of a very high order...Darkly funny...vastly sophisticated...A particularly ingenious masterpiece of comic plotting." --The Toronto Star
Martin Amis is the bestselling author of London Fields, Time's Arrow and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov.
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Da: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Hardcover. First Canadian edition. pp. 374. 8vo. Quarterbound with black cloth over black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Codice articolo 085253
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Da: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Codice articolo FORT777332
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Da: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
[0-394-28111-X] 1995, 1st Canadian edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 374pp. 8vo. First Canadian edition. A comedy that takes the reader to places comedy does not normally venture, into those territories abandoned by romance, by satire and by tragedy. Amis has said that comedy is the only genre with any future: it is all that's left. A fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose protective mylar sleeve. Codice articolo 129355
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Da: Libris Redux, Dundas, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing in Fine/Fine condition in a Brodart cover. Signed by the author with event provenance laid in. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 000641
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Da: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. SIGNED by Martin Amis on half- title page. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Hint of light foxing at top edge. ). Codice articolo 22509
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Da: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. REVIEW COPY. (2 pages of publicity material laid-in. ) SIGNED by Martin Amis on half-title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Codice articolo 12686
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Da: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Regno Unito
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good. book. Codice articolo D7S9-1-M-039428111X-3
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