Martin Amis: 33 books

She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend,...

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 it without turning away. The king couldn’t look...

Vollgepumpt mit Alkohol, Testosteron und einem eher ungesunden Maß an Selbstvertrauen, pendelt John Self zwischen London und New York, um seinen ersten eigenen Film zu realisieren. Doch trotz Dauerrausch gibt es immer wieder Situationen, in denen John klar wird, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Ein rasanter, böser Roman und ein unbestrittener Höhepunkt im Werk von Martin Amis.

Ce qui suit est une lettre pour expliquer mon suicide. Quand vous la poserez, John Self aura cessé d’exister. M. A. En ce début des années 1980, Margaret Thatcher est Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni et Ronald Reagan président des Etats-Unis. Le cynisme et le fric sont au pouvoir. Le narrateur...

« Nous sommes tous dans le même bain maintenant. Et il en va de même pour la situation internationale, quelque chose devra céder, et bientôt. Tout cela va devenir plus hirsute, plus désordonné. Tout se défait, moi, ça, notre planète Terre. Plus encore : l’univers, qui ne manque pourtant...

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now top brass--takes...

**Soon to be a major motion picture London Fields** is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only...

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 rivalry, and disappointed love,...

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals...

A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers.  Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. ...

The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state...

This “uniquely valuable reference” filled with over five hundred quotations is a bibliophile’s delight (Library Journal).   A room without books is like a body without a soul. —Cicero   This collection of quotations about books captures the wisdom and wit of such legendary figures as: Aeschylus,...

When Richard Tull, frustrated, failed novelist invited to tour America with this oldest friend, internationally bestselling novelist Gwyn Barry, to record the event, his envy and humiliation are complete.  He sets out to gather the information that will destroy his best friend and pull his career...

An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings...