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EXPERIENCE - US PB by AMIS MARTIN
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
$30.00 AUD
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
$24.95 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
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
$23.00 AUD
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 by Martin Amis
$40.00 AUD
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 portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life, as a man and a writer. This nov ...Show more
Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
âe~Why arenâe(tm)t you out smashing windows? Itâe(tm)s not healthyâe(tm) Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice (carry a knife) and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the ot ...Show more
London Fields by Martin Amis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
London Fields is Martin Amis' 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 the rich ...Show more
Money A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" ("The New Republic") and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" ("The Times Literary Supplement") when it made its first appearance in the mid- 1980s, "Money" is Martin Amis's hilarious portrait of one man's relentless pursuit of pleasure.
Money - A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and mor ...Show more
The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
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Category: Essays
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 character ...Show more
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis
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Category: Essays | Series: King Penguin S.
With mixed feelings of wonder and trepidation, the brilliant British writer Martin Amis approaches America and introduces this sharp and thoroughly stimulating collection of "American" pieces. From Claus von Bulow to the New Evangelists, little escapes Amis' curiosity.
The Rachel Papers: 50th Anniversary Edition by Martin Amis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles 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 me ...Show more