Martin Amis

La freccia del tempo è un romanzo dello scrittore britannico Martin Amis che racconta la storia di un criminale nazista vissuta, o rivissuta, a ritroso: a partire dalla morte del protagonista per terminare con la sua nascita. Il sottotitolo inglese the Nature of the Offence, che era in origine il titolo alternativo …

London Fields is a black comic, murder mystery novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989. Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the …

Money è un romanzo di Martin Amis del 1984. Il TIME ha incluso questo libro nell'elenco dei 100 migliori romanzi di lingua inglese dal 1923 al 2005.

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself …

Il mondo sommerso è un romanzo fantascientifico di J.G. Ballard del 1962, pubblicato in Italia nel 1998 con questo nome, ma già edito nel 1963 con il titolo di Deserto d'acqua. In contrasto con molta narrativa post-apocalittica, il romanzo presenta un personaggio centrale che, invece di essere scioccato o spaventato …

The Rachel Papers is Martin Amis' first novel, published in 1973 by Jonathan Cape.

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now top brass--takes her own life, no one is …

An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all …

If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking …

In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared …