Martin Amis

Martin Amis' På innsiden er en helt spesiell selvbiografisk tekst. Den byr på en original blanding av skamløst selvutleverende privatliv og nedslag i vår nyere verdenshistorie, sett fra innsiden av en av Englands mest sentrale og omdiskuterte forfattere de siste femti årene, og ikke minst gjennom en stadig tilbakevendende samtale med Amis' beste venn gjennom førti av disse, Christopher Hitchens. Etter hvert følger vi rabulisten Hitchens til dødsleiet i et nært, men usentimentalt portrett, og siste del av boken er i tillegg viet to nasjonalskalder og deres siste dager: Den innbitt ateistiske engelske poeten Philip Larkin, og den ambivalent religiøse Saul Bellow som ble Martin Amis' venn og mentor gjennom den amerikanske nobelprisvinnerens siste femten år. Døden står altså sentralt mot slutten av dette som Amis selv har kalt sin siste roman, men først og fremst er boken er en kjærlighetsfull hyllest til livet, et memoarverk der virkelige og oppdiktede personer opptrer side om side i en særegen britisk blanding av høyt og lavt - sex og filosofi, fyll, realpolitikk og andre pinligheter. Parallelt med det reelt biografiske og historiske materialet løper en romantisk - og snart rystende - historie om Amis' forhold til den sensuelle og fascinerende amoralske Phoebe Phelps. «Litteraturens Mick Jagger... Amis er den mest blendende prosastilisten i britisk skjønnlitteratur etter krigen.» - Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph «En karismatisk sammensetning av fakta og fiksjon... Martin Amis har beholdt evnen til å overraske.» - Parul Sehgal, The New York Times «De fantastiske setningene kommer flygende mot deg, som alltid, på volley ut av mellomrommet mellom boksidene, og rett inn i det magiske rommet under dine hevede øyenbryn ... Det er mye her som også gir deg den der andre Amis-følelsen, som er den snikende fornemmelsen av en allmektig, upersonlig litterær intelligens som gnir seg opp mot - eller kanskje vi skulle si utforsker - ytterkantene, gren

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.

From one of the world's greatest modern writers: collected here is some of Martin Amis's best nonfiction work from over two decades, ranging from politics and sports to celebrity, America, and literature. "Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels."--The Seattle Times As a journalist, critic, and novelist, 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. He writes about finally confronting the effects of aging on his athletic prowess. He revisits the worlds of Bellow and Nabokov, his "twin peaks," masters who have obsessed and inspired him. And he turns his piercingly observant eye on Donald Trump, whom he finds "scowling out from under an omelette of makeup" in the run-up to the 2016 Republican Convention, and at a post-election rally, regarding his crowd of supporters with a "flat sneer of Ozymandian hauteur." Overflowing with startling and singular turns of phrase, and complete with new commentary by the author, The Rub of Time is a vital addition to any bookshelf, and the perfect primer for readers discovering Amis's fierce talents for the first time.

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 scoreIn this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a generation by storm.

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction â?? his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.

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, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.

NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life--and love--among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz. "A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." --San Francisco Chronicle Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time's Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet"--the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler's private secretary, in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history. An epilogue by the author elucidates Amis's reasons and method for undertaking this extraordinary project.

Priglashaem v tvorcheskoe puteshestvie po volshebnomu miru kvillinga! Etot vid rukodelija uzhe davno zavoeval ljubov tvorcheskikh natur so vsego mira i segodnja tolko nabiraet oboroty. Bumazhnaja filigran, ili kvilling, - eto sostavlenie podelok iz raznotsvetnykh bumazhnykh polosok, kotoroe ne trebuet ni vremennykh ni materialnykh zatrat, - lish nemnogo svobodnogo vremeni i fantazii! Eta kniga nauchit vas raznoobraznym priemam kvillinga, a takzhe podelitsja poleznymi sovetami. V nej predstavleny modeli kak dlja nachinajuschikh, tak i dlja opytnykh masterov kvillinga: originalnye nastennye panno, pozdravitelnye otkrytki ruchnoj raboty, stilnye podveski i sergi, prazdnichnye ukrashenija.

Martin Amis's acclaimed novel--now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary hardcover edition--is a blackly comic murder mystery about a murder that has not yet happened. First published in 1989, LONDON FIELDS is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded millennium approaches, Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing, attempts to orchestrate her own extinction, choosing her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young--a writer suffering from a long bout of writer's block--stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, LONDON FIELDS is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means.

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God -- appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk shows and events to discuss everything from the death of Jerry Falwell to the sainthood of Mother Teresa, from U.S. policy in the Middle East to the dangers of religious fundamentalism and beyond. And he is always armed with pithy discourse that is as intelligent as it is quotable.The Quotable Hitchens gathers for the first time the eminent journalist, public intellectual, and all-around provocateur Christopher Hitchen's most scathing, inflammatory, hilarious, and clear-cut commentary from the course of his storied career. Drawn from his many TV appearances, debates, lectures, interviews, articles, and books, the quotations are arranged alphabetically by subject -- from atheism and alcoholism to George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, from Islamofascism and Iraq to smoking and sex.

Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventiesâ??s emerging feminism towards his own ends.

A collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews.

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.

'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR.

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America.