Like John Updike,Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. 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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099422228Number of pages: 528Weight: 362 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm
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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 pleasureAmis's gifts - vigilance,wit,energy of language... A collection that reaffirms him as the suavest and funniest critic of his generationWe have here a literary critic of startling power... Often being right and being funny are,in this book,aspects of the same sentence... Amis is the best practitioner-critic of our day - just what Pritchett was in his prime...(Written) with intelligence and ardor and panache... Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers matureBrilliant prose... (Amis) proselytizes for talent by demonstrating it,by doing it... He is a master
Martin Amis
A titan of modern literature and one of his generation's most experimental and influential writers,Martin Amis was an award-winning British novelist,memoirist and essayist.
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