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The War Against Cliche
Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
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Vintage Books Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6L43DEL
EAN: 9780099422228
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Beschreibung
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, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, F. R. Leavis, V. S. Pritchett, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Angus Wilson, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Shiva and V. S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris and John Updike. Other subjects include chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, juvenile violence, Andy Warhol, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Thatcher. '. A tour de force in which every paragraph uncoils with vertiginous twists and turns, lightning metaphors, genuine learning, unstoppable laughter, and a passionate sense of literary pleasure' Independent.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Martin Amis
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2002
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 528