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Dead Babies by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectoryfor the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp desc ...Show more
EXPERIENCE - US PB by AMIS MARTIN
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Fus[ing] humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth (New York Times), one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, ...Show more
Experience by Martin Amis
Category: Biography
In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kinsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "Hou ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic 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. Th ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
Category: Reference
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic. His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life, as a man and a writer. This nov ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction
A magisterial, inventive and witty modern classic - Amis' autobiographical novel and arguably his most important masterpiece to date - the companion volume to EXPERIENCE 'The Mick Jagger of literature' Daily TelegraphLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere ...Show more
Inside Story - A Novel by Martin Amis
Category: Fiction
"The Mick Jagger of literature . . . Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction." --Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph "[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction . . . Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times From one of the most high ...Show more
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines by Martin Amis
Category: Film & Tv
Back in a facsimile edition is Martin Amis's closet passion project, first published in 1982: a compulsive gamer's guide to arcades and beating your younger self's high score In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a genera ...Show more