Martin Amis on His Writing Career, the British Literary Scene, and His Father Kingsley (2000)

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  • The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: B008LNSKL4
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

  • Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: 1590175751
    • ISBN: 9781590175750
    • Brand: New York Review of Books
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

    Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end... [Read More]

  • Ending Up (NYRB Classics)

    • ASIN: 1590177592
    • ISBN: 1590177592
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

    Ending Up is a grimly hilarious dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay.  Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s characters hav... [Read More]

  • Experience: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0375726837
    • ISBN: 0375726837
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He als... [Read More]

  • Colonel Sun: A James Bond Novel

    • ASIN: 1784871451
    • ISBN: 1784871451
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Classics

    The first ever Bond continuation, originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, now finally back in print and published to coincide with the forthcoming Bond film Spectre. Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M, convalescing in his Regency house in Berkshire -- the life of secret agent James Bond has begun to ... [Read More]

  • Trigger Mortis: With Original Material by Ian Fleming (James Bond Novels (Paperback))

    • ASIN: B00U1ZV63Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    James Bond, the world’s most famous spy, returns to his 1950s heyday in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, incorporating never-before-published material from 007’s creator, Ian Fleming.James Bond won his battle with criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pu... [Read More]

  • The Alteration (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: B008LNSV22
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

  • Losing Venice: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1732195684
    • ISBN: 1732195684
    • Manufacturer: Rogue Dog Press

    Short-listed for the 2019 People's Book Prize"A remarkable novel... only someone who has lived in Venice could write with such vivid detail, clarity and affection about her charms and annoyances."JoAnn Loctov, Dream of VeniceSurrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully? Travel marketing executive Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. ... [Read More]

  • Tuttle in the Balance: A Novel

    • ASIN: B015RPC18G
    • Manufacturer: Ankerwycke

    Meet Supreme Court Justice Ed Tuttle. Like many men his age, Ed Tuttle is having a mid-life crisis. He is bored with his job, uncertain about his faith, and unable to find love in the wake of divorce. Unlike most other men his age, however, Ed Tuttle is a justice on the United States Supreme Court. As the swing vote in one of the most contentious t... [Read More]

  • The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original)

    • ASIN: 1101872616
    • ISBN: 1101872616
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

    The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled! Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. Here, ... [Read More]

  • The Rub of Time

    • ASIN: 1787330141
    • ISBN: 1787330141
    • Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape Ltd

    Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous collection, 'Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra ... [Read More]

  • The Life of Kingsley Amis

    • ASIN: 0099428423
    • ISBN: 9780099428428
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Books

    The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis’s friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and c... [Read More]

  • Martin Amis on His Writing Career, the British Literary Scene, and His Father Kingsley (2000)

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