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Martin Amis

Born

in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, The United Kingdom

August 25, 1949

Died

May 19, 2023

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Genre

Fiction, Essays, Contemporary

Influences

Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis, Norman Mail ...more

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Martin Amis was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works included the novels Money, London Fields and The Information.

The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."

Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness."
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Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 鈥� archive, 17 January 1982

In the second of a new series of reviews from the Observer archive, Martin Amis marvels at the third instalment of John Updike鈥檚鈥楻abbit鈥� series

The great postwar American writer won two Pulitzer prizes for the Harry 鈥淩abbit鈥� Angstrom tetralogy. In a to his hero, Martin Amis wrote that Updike 鈥渢ook the novel onto another plane of i

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Average rating: 3.62 · 148,249 ratings · 12,640 reviews · 96 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Money 3.70 avg rating — 24,841 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time's Arrow 3.76 avg rating — 17,400 ratings — published 1991 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London Fields 3.67 avg rating — 13,135 ratings — published 1989 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rachel Papers 3.57 avg rating — 11,085 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Zone of Interest 3.69 avg rating — 9,759 ratings — published 2014 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Information 3.61 avg rating — 6,401 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Babies 3.38 avg rating — 6,306 ratings — published 1975 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Train 3.28 avg rating — 6,369 ratings — published 1997 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experience: A Memoir 3.89 avg rating — 3,994 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lionel Asbo: State of England 3.32 avg rating — 4,582 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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