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Money
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ANDREW O'HAGANJohn Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk …
London Fields
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2024
152 kr
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She knows she will be murdered. She believes she has chosen the man who will do it.Samson Young arrives in 1980s London ill, broke, and determined to write one last novel. In a decaying city thick with corruption and appetite, he meets Nicola Six, a woman who is certain she will be killed on her …
Money
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2005
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. …
London Fields
Av Martin Amis
Inbunden, 2014
184 kr
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Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the …
Other People
a Mystery Story
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 1999
139 kr
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'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The TimesLike a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong...Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn …
Inside Story
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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'Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts, encountering vibrant characters from Saul Bellow, to Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch …
London Fields
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 1999
152 kr
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Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting to be narrated. At its centre is …
Yellow Dog
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2004
152 kr
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'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny’ GuardianWhen 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He …
War Against Cliche
Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2002
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career.The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, …
Other People
A Mystery Story
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2025
287 kr
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From "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" ( Time ), Other People is a tale about a woman's path toward self-actualization. A woman wakes in an emergency room and remembers nothing-not even her own name. She hears a song about a "Mary" and a "lamb," and decides to call herself …
Time's Arrow
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2003
139 kr
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Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the …
Success
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2004
139 kr
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'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' ObserverSmooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are …
Zone of Interest
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s wife pursue their passion – the gears of Nazi Germany’s Final Solution grinding …
Experience
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2025
141 kr
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The prize-winning autobiography of the late, great Martin Amis. Now with an introduction from Zadie Smith.'Part memoir, part confessional, Experience is a gentle coming to terms about the stuff of life' GuardianINTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITHIn this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the …
Heavy Water And Other Stories
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 1999
215 kr
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In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in 'The …
Dead Babies
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2004
139 kr
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Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the countryBlitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the six twenty-something friends ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But mysterious ‘Johnny’ begins …
Koba The Dread
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2003
165 kr
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Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one …
Rachel Papers
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2003
136 kr
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Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets the aloof, wildly …
Moronic Inferno
And Other Visits to America
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2006
215 kr
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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 confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with …
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2005
215 kr
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Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John Updike - warts and all. Vigorously zipping across to Washington, he exposes the double-think of …
House of Meetings
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2007
148 kr
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‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary ReviewThere 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 …
Rub of Time
Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2018
179 kr
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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny …
Pregnant Widow
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on …
Information
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2008
179 kr
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Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes, prestige and wealth abound, and from …
Lionel Asbo
State of England
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 2013
135 kr
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Lionel Asbo has just won £139,999,999.50 on the Lottery. A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel’s attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He showers him with fatherly advice (‘carry a knife’) and introduces Des to the joys of internet porn. …
Night Train
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 1998
139 kr
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A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England’s finest fiction writers'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned out to be suicides, accidentals …
Einstein's Monsters
Av Martin Amis
Häftad, 1999
126 kr
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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 …
Pregnant Widow
Av Martin Amis
Ljudbok, 2010
1043 kr
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The year is 1970, and it''s a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing—twenty …
London Fields
Av Martin Amis
Ljudbok, 2010
1192 kr
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London Fields is Martin Amis''s murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts, or …
