Martin Amis

• May-1974
• / Romance
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Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously. He sets the scene with infinite car...

• Jun-1981
• / Suspense
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"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME) gives us a metaphysical literary mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and odd...

• 1984
• / Science Fiction
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cutting-edge fiction has never sliced so deeply Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge continues...

• Apr-1985
• / Literary
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The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money and the disasters it can precipitate....

• Jan-1988
• / Literary
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Featured story is "The Murderee," by Martin Amis. Other contributors include: Raymond Carver Tess Gallagher Todd McEwen John Berger Angela Carter Don DeLillo Also included is "Death in Gibraltar," by Ian Jack...

• Jan-1989
• / General Fiction
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In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual riva...

• Mar-1990
• / General Fiction
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A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; ...

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a...

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction -- from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME)....

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that co...

• Oct-1992
• / General Fiction
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In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” -- Time Out), finds a chillingly origin...

• Apr-1995
• / Horror
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• Mar-1996
• / Suspense
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Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal -- they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer?"Satirical and tend...

• Jan-1998
• / Suspense
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New York Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. Mike is a woman with a nicotine voice, dyed blond hair and is an alcoholic who had been abused by her father. The victim is Jennifer Rockwell, who Mike had known si...

• Jun-1999
• / General Fiction
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A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation"Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time."  ...

• Nov-2003
• / General Fiction
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A brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell novel about a family man who is attacked in a garden and suddenly becomes an anti-husband and anti-father, from "one of the greatest novelists of his generation" (TIME)“Amis is a stone-solid genius....

• Jan-2004
• / Literary
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A perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest modern writers who is equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography. “Amis throws off more provocative ideas and imag...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel set in 1946, starring two brothers and a Jewish girl who fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow -- from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (...

• Sep-2008
• / Literary
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change. "A nearly perfect co...

• Jan-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2012
• / Literary
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An exuberant, acidic satire of modern society and celebrity culture--by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Young Desmond Pepperdine desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love. Unfortunately for him, he's the ward of his...

• Oct-2014
• / Literary
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Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn’t show you your reflection. It showed you your soul -- it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn’t look at i...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the unseen portrait of Martin Amis’ extraordinary life, as a man and a writer. This novel had its birth in a death – that of the author's closest friend, Christopher Hitchens. We a...

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• / General Fiction
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Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brilliant instrument, dazzling readers with its energy and wit. In this much anticipated memoir, Amis writes w...

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