Einstein's Monsters
  • Published:
    Mar-1990
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    176
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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; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book” -- Daily Telegraph


“A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours” -- Sunday Times

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.

The 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 human, not for now.'

“Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath” -- Observer


 
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-1990
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679729968
    • ISBN13: 9780679729969
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    • Jul-1999
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099768917
    • ISBN13: 9780099768913
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    • Dec-2010
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 144640143X
    • ISBN13: 9781446401439
    •  
    • Jan-2011
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307777758
    • ISBN13: 9780307777751



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