"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 negative review, Taylor discusses the time structure of Time's Arrow, calling the novel "an entertaining conceit wound out to extravagant length."
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In the following review of Time's Arrow, Lehman focuses on the reversed chronological order of the book's narrative and the intent of Amis's technique.
My 8-year-old son, an ex...
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In the following excerpt, Bell dismisses Time's Arrow as "offensive" and maintains that Amis "fails to comprehend" what he has "exploited" in his story...
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In the following essay, Slater points to problems that occur in the narrative of Time's Arrow as Amis attempts to tell a story in reverse.
In his latest novel, Time's Arrow, Martin Am...
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Martin (Louis) Amis
Critical Review by D. J. Taylor
