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Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the preeminent novelist-critic of his generation. Always entertaining, with a razor-sharp wit and inimitable judgment, he expounds on a dazzling range of topics from chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, to Andy Warhol, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Margaret Thatcher. The very best of his essays and reviews from the past twenty-five years are brought together in this substantial and wide-ranging collection, including pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, Malcolm Lowry, Nabokov, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Shiva and V.S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton,V.S. Pritchett and John Updike.
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"Martin Amis is truly one of a kind." — Ottawa Citizen
"A stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." — The Wall Street Journal
"One of the most gifted writers of his generation." — Time
“More than a job well done, Amis can turn his reviews into such fetching objects — with his wit expensively bound in rich, calfskin diction — that the results put us mere hacks on notice...Amis’s abiding gift - and the collection’s chief boast — is his ability to jum the track and head off in an unexpected direction...Funny, unflinching and near-undupable, Amis never misses a chance to frisk a book to within an inch of its pretensions...[a] compulsively readable book...I’m ready to call for an all-out Amisification of literary criticism. Wanted: pundits willing to write not just for the penny remuneration, but for the sheer, spendthrift joy of the act.” —Carmine Starnino, National Post
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"A stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." — The Wall Street Journal
"One of the most gifted writers of his generation." — Time
“More than a job well done, Amis can turn his reviews into such fetching objects — with his wit expensively bound in rich, calfskin diction — that the results put us mere hacks on notice...Amis’s abiding gift - and the collection’s chief boast — is his ability to jum the track and head off in an unexpected direction...Funny, unflinching and near-undupable, Amis never misses a chance to frisk a book to within an inch of its pretensions...[a] compulsively readable book...I’m ready to call for an all-out Amisification of literary criticism. Wanted: pundits willing to write not just for the penny remuneration, but for the sheer, spendthrift joy of the act.” —Carmine Starnino, National Post
Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories, four works of non-fiction and a memoir. He lives in London.
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- EditoreKnopf Canada
- Data di pubblicazione2001
- ISBN 10 067697404X
- ISBN 13 9780676974041
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine528
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