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La mia vita privata era alquanto bohémien, hippy ed edonistica. Diciamo pure tranquillamente debosciata. Ma in fatto di critica letteraria avevo principi morali ferrei. Non facevo che leggere libri di critica: mi portavo dietro i miei Edmund Wilson e William Empson praticamente ovunque: nella vasca da bagno, in metropolitana. Prendevo questa faccenda molto sul serio". I saggi, le recensioni, le letture di devastante arguzia e le scazzottate le...

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1999: in una Londra post-thatcheriana, dura, violenta, vulnerata, tra Dickens e Biade Runner. Qui sbarca lo scrittore americano Samson Young in cerca d'ispirazione, e qui si trova di fronte, reale e in svolgimento, la storia del suo romanzo, che dunque trascrive "in presa diretta" sulle orme di un inquietante trio: Nicola Six, disperata femme fatale e per sua stessa ammissione, "figura della fantasia maschile", che si fa complice del suo omici...

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Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).

Acclaimed collection of short stories. "Crackling prose..." )The Times(. "This volume is essential reading for anyone remotely interested in where we are and how we got here" )Sunday Times. Night Train( was Amis' last novel.

A cleverly written story, narrated by two brothers, of despair and the male psyche.

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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 sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demis...

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily for Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel -- a girl who sorely tests the mettle o...

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 and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none...

In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude, " the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry.

Al Kat Zet, la zona d'interesse, la vita scorre placidamente: madri che passeggiano con le figliolette, ricchi pasti serviti alla mensa ufficiali, tediosa burocrazia negli uffici, caldi incontri nelle alcove. Tutto intorno un'altra vita, se questa è vita, freme e spira, a centinaia, a migliaia, giù per le fosse, su per i camini. Ma qui, lungo il viale alberato della zona d'interesse, comprendente terreni, officine e centro residenziale delle S...

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, Experience.Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intel...

Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street JournalIn this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the form. In "Career Move, " screenwriters struggle for their art, while poets are the darlings of Hollywood. In "Straight Fiction, " the love that dare not speak its name calls out to the hero when he encounters a forbidden object...