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"Wit and talent and mordant perception ... Martin Amis is surely by far the most interesting of the new English writers," proclaims Dennis Potter on the dust jacket of Amis's latest novel Other People...
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It must be among Martin Amis's greatest fears that when his obituary is published in The Times of London it will begin, "The son of noted novelist Kingsley Amis. . . ." To follow in the shadow of such...
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In the following essay, Powell provides overviews and analyses of three of Amis's early novels, The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies, and Success.
Success is a funny thing. In literature (as K.W. Gra...
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In the following review, Kaveney asserts that The Information is a "generic" Amis novel, and claims the book to be "the overpriced sale of second-hand shoddy."
Nervous ener...
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In the following predominantly negative review, Ratcliffe discusses some of the "bad writing" that is present in The Information, noting that while parts of the tale are sincere and �...
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In the following review, Buckley discusses The Information and how Amis has evolved as a writer.
There's been a whole lot of keening in the British press lately about, Martin Amis's new ...
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In the following review, Eder lauds Amis as "dark, satirical and gifted with irascibility." However, he does find fault with Amis's lack of "inventiveness" and the a...
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In the following review, Kakutani favorably discusses The Information as "ambitious" and "uncompromising," and predicts that the book will be favorably received.
Once in a ...
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In the following review, Loose discusses the themes, strengths, and weaknesses of Amis's novel The Information.
Clearly, for Martin Amis, enough is nothing like enough. To read him is to discov...
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In the following review, Rubin examines The Information and states that despite the "unpleasant" nature of the story, Amis manages to contrive a "scathing satire of London literar...
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In the following review, Morales discusses briefly the plot, themes, and autobiographical elements of The Information, praising some aspects of Amis's writing and faulting others.
With The Info...
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In the following review, Bowman asserts that Amis's work is often lacking in plot but strong in prose.
Writers of fiction in the twentieth century can be divided into the champions of big textu...
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In the following negative review, Ward faults The Information, saying it "does not have a plot, it has predicaments and events." He also declares that "none of the characters in T...
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In the following interview, Amis discusses his work, literary influences, and techniques, and his reputation as a misogynist, among other topics.
"Look, we're not running this."
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In the following negative review, King calls Visiting Mrs. Nabokov "gossipy" and "egotistical," and dismisses the collection of journalistic pieces as "pretty misera...
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In the following review, Prose lauds Visiting Mrs. Nabokov as light, unoffensive, and lively.
Written for British newspapers like The Observer and American magazines like Vanity Fair, and as an appare...
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In the following essay, Alexander discusses the influences of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov in Amis's work, focusing on London Fields, Money, and The Moronic Inferno.
Martin Amis's no...
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Martin (Louis) Amis
Critical Essay by Neil Powell
