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Martin Amis porträtiert mit unnachahmlicher Offenheit Salman Rushdie, Steven Spielberg oder Donald Trump, schreibt mit frischer Leichtigkeit über Kafka oder Cervantes, immer brillant über die schwarzen Löcher und toten Winkel unserer Gesellschaft. Seine Stimme bekommt eine sentimentale Tiefe, wenn er von der Königsfamilie erzählt, er begleitet Tony Blair zu Angela Merkel, beobachtet das gleichzeitige Heranströmen von Oktoberfestbesuchern und F...

In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a generation by storm. Delving into the electric atmosphere of the arcades where he misspent his youth, he asks: Why did Space Invaders invade our hearts and minds? How much time, loose change and sex appeal did they cost us? And most importantly, which secret cheats and tactics must we master to reach the next level?

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Martin Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics-politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. Collected here is some of his best nonfiction work from over two decades. Amis writes about finally confronting the effects of aging on his athletic prowess. He revisits the worlds of Bellow and Nabokov, his "twin peaks, " masters wh...

Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. He explores his relationship with his beloved father, novelist Kingsley Amis, and examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also dissects the literary sce...

Il detective Mike Hoolihan ha un fisico corpulento da camionista, i capelli biondo tinto e una voce cavernosa per il troppo fumo. Il detective Mike è una donna. Una donna grassa, brutta, ex alcolizzata. Un'amica d'infanzia, Jennifer, si è sparata tre colpi di una calibro 22 in bocca. Jennifer era bellissima, intelligente, professionalmente realizzata e sentimentalmente felice. Suo padre, pezzo grosso della polizia, non crede al suicidio e dà c...

Nicola Six, regelmatig bezoekster van de Londense pub het Zwarte Kruis, is ervan overtuigd dat ze op haar vijfendertigste verjaardag vermoord zal worden. Maar door wie? Wordt het Keith, de alcoholistische, racistische dartsliefhebber die zich graag inlaat met schimmige zaakjes, of de rijke, welopgevoede maar incompetente Guy? Haar verhaal is een geschenk uit de hemel voor mede-stamgast Samson Young, een schrijver met een writer's block. Hij ...

Ecco Lionel Asbo. Visto da certe angolazioni potrebbe ricordarvi l'attaccante Wayne Rooney, il fenomeno della nazionale inglese e del Manchester United: lo stesso sorriso a denti larghi, la stessa corporatura non molto alta, non molto grassa, ma molto ben piazzata. Di diverso ha una propensione alla violenza in tutte le sue forme e dolorose varietà e un dottorato guadagnato sulla strada in Volgarità e Diritto penale (e se di questa scienza è d...

Newly arrived in the ZONE OF INTEREST - the outer perimeter of the camp at Auschwitz - Golo Thomsen, an official with important connections in Berlin, promptly falls in love with the wife of the camp commandant. We know that horror and cruelty are possible in such a setting. But what about love, comedy and heroism? Masterful, unsettling and infinitely sad, this is a holocaust novel like no other.

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Xan Meo es un hombre de talentos y secretos. Actor, mú-sico, escritor, y también hijo de un célebre delincuente. Es verano, Xan se sienta a tomar una copa en la terraza del pub cuando dos hombres le parten la cabeza a cachi-porrazos. Se salvará, pero será otro. Deberá acostum-brarse a su nuevo ser, y también deberán acostumbrarse todos los que le rodean... Una novela aterradora y diver-tidísima, una indagación sobre la sexualidad y la porno-gr...

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By turns outrageous and touching, an exuberant Dickensian satire of crime, celebrity, and modern culture from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME)"One of Amis's funniest novels." --The New Yorker>Yet Lionel, full of inept devotion to his nephew, dutifully teaches Des the essentials of becoming a man (always carry a knife, pornography is easier than dating, pit bulls should be fed Tabasco sauce). To survive these lessons,...

Xan Meo, een vriendelijke modelvader, verandert na een vechtpartij in de kroeg in zijn tegendeel, zelfs zijn vierjarige dochtertje is niet meer veilig voor hem. En dat is pas het begin van deze wervelende, virtuoze roman vol met opmerkelijke figuren, onder wie een half-mislukte riooljournalist en zijn louter in sms-taal communicerende vrouw, een pornotycoon en een nogal perverse koninklijke familie. Tegen een futuristisch aandoende achtergrond...

Under Martin Amis's expert guidance, "Night Train" escalates from a captivating whodunit into a dazzling inquest into perpetrators and punishers, pattern and paranoia, innocence and evil.