Martin Amis: 33 books

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...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.” —The Seattle Times Equally...

"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journal In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for...

Vladimir Nabokov • le poker • Jane Austen • la princesse Diana • Donald Trump • le porno • John Travolta • Philip Roth • Maradona • l’hérédité • Saul Bellow • le tennis • John Updike • Orange mécanique • Don DeLillo • Ben Laden • Las Vegas Quel est le point...

Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and...

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through...

As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Martin Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics—politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Collected here is some of his best nonfiction work from over two decades. Amis writes...

Brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell, Yellow Dog is Martin Amis’ highly anticipated first novel in seven years and a stunning return to the fictional form. When “dream husband” Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head injury, and personality...

Martin Amis porträtiert mit unnachahmlicher Offenheit Salman Rushdie, Steven Spielberg oder Donald Trump, schreibt mit frischer Leichtigkeit über Kafka oder Cervantes, immer brillant über die schwarzen Löcher und toten Winkel unserer Gesellschaft. Seine Stimme bekommt eine sentimentale Tiefe,...

A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time.At the heart of this collection is the long essay “Terror and...

DÉCOR Camp de concentration Kat Zet I en Pologne.   PERSONNAGES Paul Doll, le Commandant : bouff on vaniteux, lubrique, assoiffé d’ alcool et de mort. Hannah Doll, l’ épouse : canon de beauté aryen, mère de jumelles, un brin rebelle. Angelus Thomsen, l’ officier SS...

Gwyn Barry et Richard Tull sont écrivains, amis de longue date. Tout réussit à Gwyn, qui cumule gloire littéraire et bonheur conjugal, tandis que Richard s’embourbe dans un quotidien terne et peine à joindre les deux bouts. S’il bat Gwyn aux échecs, au billard et au tennis, cela ne suffit...

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily...

To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton...