Ad
related to: martin amis books best to worst selling items on ebay for beginners full
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis.In 2005, Time included the novel in its "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present". [1] The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film Saturn 3, a Kirk Douglas vehicle.
Amis was born on 25 August 1949 at Radcliffe Maternity Hospital in Oxford, England. [8] His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; [4] his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, [9] was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.
Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis.It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology, with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel.
Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Pages in category "Books by Martin Amis" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. The book has appeared on some critics' lists after and during its time of release. According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is "The 1257th greatest book of all time".
The book was widely praised upon publication. In The New York Times Book Review, critic A.O. Scott wrote that "the publication of Heavy Water, a gathering of nine stories, most of them published in this decade, nearly half in The New Yorker, provides a good opportunity to state plainly what has been apparent for some time: Martin Amis is the best American writer England has ever produced."
The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis.The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that both characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. [1]
Several reviewers were baffled by the claim that it was a novel: "Martin Amis’s “Inside Story” contains so much autofiction, metafiction and just plain nonfiction (there’s an index) that one doesn’t know how to classify the book" [6] Others felt the novel was somewhat recycled, with several ideas and character types appearing in ...