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Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond
PreviewThis is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors.
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
Martin AmisSex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court with Gabriela Sabatini, this is Martin Amis at his electric best.
Martin Amis
Brian FinneyPart of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Martin Amis and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical ...
Heavy Water And Other Stories
Martin AmisIn Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted.
The Pregnant Widow
Martin AmisIt is funny, clever and knowing' DAILY MAIL 'Delight us Amis does, and as few can' INDEPENDENT 'What a voice! There's a full-throated energy to this book that makes more respectable contemporary novels look like turgid waffle' GUARDIAN
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis
Philip LarkinFor the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.
The Alteration
Kingsley AmisIn a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes? 'Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force.
Martin Amis: The Essential Guide
Jonathan NoakesThis guide deals with Amis's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome ...
PreviewThe Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis' Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday Nick Bentley This chapter exploresthe contrasting representation of trauma in two contemporary British novels: Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (2003) and Ian ...
Einstein's Monsters
Martin AmisThe stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully ...
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
Kingsley AmisHere is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis's wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking.
London Fields
Martin AmisThere is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story.
Take A Girl Like You
Kingsley AmisIn Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much.
Yellow Dog
Martin AmisWhen 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change.
Lionel Asbo: State of England
Martin AmisThis is not necessarily good news for Des who has a secret that could unleash his uncle’s implacable vengeance. ‘Why aren’t you out smashing windows?
Memoirs
Kingsley AmisElegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).
Complete Stories
Kingsley AmisThe short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny.
Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience
Andrew JamesRichard Bradford followed this line of argument by describing I Want It Now as an “indulgently romanticized version” of Amis and Howard's love story that parallels Sleeping Beauty (2001, 241). The author's pre—novel notes support this ...
House of Meetings
Martin AmisThe consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. House of Meetings is about one such liaison.
Promises, Promises
Adam PhillipsThis collection gives us insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's Night Train, and provides a case history of clutter.
Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846
Marion Day MullinsMartin, William G. Martin, William N. P. Martin, Zadok Mart in as, Guadalupe Martinas, Perfector Martinez, Aus. ... J. Matagorda Martin, J. F. Brazos Martin, J. G. Titus Martin, J. S. Anderson Martin, J. S. Leon Martin, James Limestone Martin, ...
Analectes du bibiophile: recueil trimestriel contenant: 1 ...
Read... semblables. — Jusqu'à ce que nous trouvions vraiment quelque chose de plus libéral, restons capucins, mes chers amis. WIELAND Christophe-Martin Wieland est un célèbre poète, auteur dramatique et 11 1 2 d'ouvrages intéressants 133.
Wat we zien als we lezen
Peter MendelsundPeter Mendelsund is de huisontwerper van uitgeverij Alfred A. Knopf en voormalig pianist. Hij ontwierp omslagen voor onder anderen Martin Amis, Stieg Larsson, David Mitchell en Kazuo Ishiguro.
Conversations with Joseph Heller
Joseph HellerAlso in this collection are Heller's conversations with authors Martin Amis and George Plimpton and a probing exchange with Bill Moyers about democracy, politics, and Heller's Picture This.
Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture
PreviewJudy Simons, "Classics and Trash: Reading Austen in the '90s," Women's Writing 5, no. 1 (1998): 27-39. 34. I quote, as many recent discussions of Austenmania have, Martin Amis, "Jane's World," New Yorker 71, no. 43 (January 8, 1996): 31.
Winston County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2
Robin SterlingTroy Martin Martin, Billy C., 23 Mar 1940 – 29 Mar 1980; SS Hildred B. Martin Martin, Carrye S., 20 Mar 1909 – 8 May 1986; ... SS Billy C. Martin Martin, Jack J., 18 Aug 1934 – 23 Aug 2000; SS Sadie Jeanette Martin Martin, Jeanette Batchelor, ...
Alabama State Troopers
PreviewMichael Hicks. David E Hicks. Gary W Higginbotham. Frank E Higgins. Otis. Jr Hill. Angela N Hill. Beverly F Hill. Carol j Hill ... Clayton B Martin. James A Martin. Loretta H Martin. Michael T Martin. Stacy L Martin. Sylvester Martin, Virginia Martin.
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