The war against cliché : essays and reviews, 1971-2000 / Martin Amis
2001, 1st edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425665
ISBN: 0224050591
Physical description: xv, 505 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: On Masculinity and Related Questions: Iron John. Movie Violence. Thatcher, Lincoln, Hillary Clinton. The End of Nature. Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol. Nuclear Weapons. Writing About Sex -- Some English Prose: V.S. Pritchett. Angus Wilson. Iris Murdoch. J.G. Ballard. Anthony Burgess. C.P. Snow, Brian Aldiss, Cyril Connolly, Fay Weldon, John Fowles. D.M. Thomas -- Philip Larkin -- From the Canon: Coleridge. Jane Austen. Milton. Dickens. Donne. Waugh and Wodehouse. Malcolm Lowry -- Popularity Contest: Robert B. Parker: Chandler Prolonged. Michael Crichton. Elmore Leonard. Tom Wolfe. Thomas Harris -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Some American Prose: Norman Mailer. Gore Vidal. Philip Roth. William Burroughs. Kurt Vonnegut. Truman Capote. Don DeLillo. Saul Bellow -- Obsessions and Curiosities: Chess. Football. Poker. World Records. Modern Humour -- John Updike -- Ultramundane: World Literature. Zamyatin. Kafka. Shiva Naipaul. A Journey in Ladakh. V.S. Naipaul -- Great Books: Don Quixote. Pride and Prejudice. Ulysses. The Adventures of Augie March. Lolita. Subjects: Amis, Martin 1949- Literature History and criticism. Littérature Histoire et critique. English literature History and criticism. Essays.
Price: €35.00