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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Moronic Inferno: and Other Visits to America, the Second Plane, the War Against Cliché, Experience, Visiting Mrs Nabokov: and Other Excursions. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986) is a collection of non-fiction journalism on the subject of America by the novelist Martin Amis. In the book's introduction, Amis reveals that he had been asked to write a book about America on previous occasions, but that The Moronic Inferno had come together "unpremeditated, accidental, and in installments" while he was "upending desk drawer to prepare a collection of occasional journalism". The 'Moronic Inferno' of the title is a phrase that Amis claims to have come from Saul Bellow, who in turn Amis says claims to have taken it from Wyndham Lewis. The twenty six articles collected, many of which are expanded from their original forms and containing postscripts commenting on subsequent developments after publication, are drawn from Amis' numerous contributions to the Observer, the New Statesman, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, the London Review of Books, Tatler, and Vanity Fair between 1977-1985. The articles consider, among other things, American politics, major literary figures, the evangelical Christianity movement, cinema, sex, and numerous facets of popular culture. - "Saul Bellow and the Moronic Inferno" - "The Killings in Atlanta" - "Truman Capote: Knowing Everybody" - "Philip Roth: No Satisfaction" - "Elvis Presley: He Did It His Way" - "Diana Trilling at Claremont Avenue" - "Normana Mailer: The Avenger and the Bitch" - "Palm Beach: Don't You Love It?" - "Brian DePalma: The Movie Brute" - "Here's Ronnie: On the Road with Reagan" - "Mr. Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore" - "Too Much ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25665692 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V. on November 16, 2008. The length of the article is 395 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El gran Martin Amis.
Author: Juan Josê Reyes
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 16, 2008
Publisher: Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V.
Volume: 55Issue: 2892Page: 78(1)

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 947 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Martin Amis. The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000.(Book Review)
Author: William Hutchings
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Page: 77(2)

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The city, especially London, is undoubtedly one of the favourite themes in British fiction of the last two decades of the twentieth century. Writers such as Ackroyd, Sinclair, Self, Kureishi, Carter and others have expressed their attitude to the metropolis in their novels, short stories, non-fiction and film scripts. The diversity and versatility of the urban milieu are reflected by these writers? multifarious treatments of the theme, and so the city comes to life again and again in both its real as well as fictional forms. Moreover, these two forms become hardly distinguishable and thus mutually interchangeable as the realistic aspects of the city perpetually intertwine with the fictitious. This work attempts to show how the city, as both theme and setting, is used by Martin Amis and Ian McEwan in their selected novels written, with one exception, during the 1980s and 90s. In order to provide theoretical and historical contexts, chapters providing a brief outline of the city as the writer?s object of interest since the late nineteenth century and dealing with Amis?s and McEwan?s characteristic narrative strategies are also included. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on September 6, 2002. The length of the article is 495 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Martin Amis visita a Stalin.(libros)(TT: Martin Amis visits Stalin.)(TA: books)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Uríbarri Fátima
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 6, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 130(1)

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on July 1, 2008. The length of the article is 1248 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La venganza de Martin Amis.(The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom, libro)(Ensayo crîtico)
Author: Leôn Krauze
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2008
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 10Issue: 115Page: 100(2)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Narrative Theory, published by Eastern Michigan University, Department of English Language and Literature on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 9092 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Big-time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: the intrusive author in Martin Amis's Money.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
Author: Robert Duggan
Publication: Journal of Narrative Theory (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Eastern Michigan University, Department of English Language and Literature
Volume: 39Issue: 1Page: 86(23)

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4281 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conversación con Martín Amis: cómo salir de una botella y otras ansiedades silenciosas.(autor)(Entrevista)
Author: Juan Villoro
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 6Issue: 70Page: 42(5)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V. on August 30, 2009. The length of the article is 394 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dura novela policial: tren nocturno, de Martin Amis.
Author: Juan Josê Reyes
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 30, 2009
Publisher: Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V.
Volume: 56Issue: 2933Page: 76(1)

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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 ? 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catholic background. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he savagely satirises but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel literature and his extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published. Waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired as a humorist and as a prose stylist, but as his social conservatism and religiosity became more overt, his works grew more controversial with critics. In his notes for an unpublished review of Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on February 15, 2002. The length of the article is 1433 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El escribiente inglés: Martin Amis se mudo al Uruguay.(TT: Martin Amis, British author: moved to Uruguay.)(Entrevista)
Author: Rubén Loza Aguerrebere
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 15, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 70

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Chapters: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Sally Amis,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, the author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature, including Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. The Times named him in 2008 as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition and the excesses of late-capitalist Western society with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus been portrayed as the undisputed master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness." Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive style, including Will Self and Zadie Smith. The Guardian writes that "ll his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis 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." Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)Amis was born in Swansea, south Wales. His father, Sir Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham; his mother, Hilary Bardwell (Hilly), was the daughter of a shoe millionaire. He had an older brother, Philip, and a younger sister, Sally. His parents divorced when he was twelve. Much later, he lived in a house with Kingsley, Hilly, and Hilly's third husband, Alistair Boyd, Lord Kilmarnock. Amis has described it as "omething out of early Updike, 'Couples' flirtations ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=87240 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on July 1, 2008. The length of the article is 2135 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El talentoso Mr. Amis: entrevista con Martin Amis.(autor)(Entrevista)
Author: Diego Salazar
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2008
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 10Issue: 115Page: 101(3)

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Chapters: Alan Turing, Max Newman, Martin Amis, Anthony Stafford Beer, Balfour Stewart, Terry Eagleton, Sheila Rowbotham, John Marco Allegro, Julian Thomas, Peter Whittle, Samuel Alexander, Alan Gilbert, Beverley Skeggs, Giovanni Dosi, Arthur Schuster, Douglas Hartree, Lewis Bernstein Namier, Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley, Helen Wallace, M. S. Bartlett, Brian Cox, Tudor Rickards, John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, Sydney Chapman, Mona Baker, Daniel Everett, Robin Bullough, Alan Smithers, Charles Galton Darwin, Horace Lamb, John E. Sulston, James Lighthill, Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Steve Furber, Patrick Du Val, Deniz Kandiyoti, James Hope Moulton, Hilary Wainwright, Michael Earl, Reg Revans, E. F. Jacob, John Maddox, Derek Yalden, Gerald Aylmer, James Alexander Green, Donald Coggan, Nicholas Higham, Clifford Charles Butler, Nicholas Penny, Oliver Elton, Albert Beaumont Wood, Henry Yule Oldham, Carole Goble, Marilyn Strathern, Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, David Forrest, Alex Wilkie, Darwin Caldwell, Robin Gandy, Martin J. Taylor, Andrew Norman Meldrum, David Abrahams, Edmund Garratt Gardner, Sydney Goldstein, Nancy Rothwell, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, Fritz Ursell, Raymond Tallis, Ian G. Macdonald, Jack Dongarra, Albert Shiryaev, Samuel Devons, David Chapman, Andrew Lyne, Norman Geras, Patricia Duncker, Philip Grange, Colin Talbot, Goronwy Edwards, Sam Nolutshungu, Viktor Buchstaber, Anthony Cohen, Ronald Montagu Burrows, J. P. Collas, Gerd Nonneman, John Beer, Tim Cornell, Harold Massingham, Brinley Rees, Bernard Jackson, Ursula Martin, Richard R. Nelson, Grace Jantzen, Bernhard Neumann, Alan Rector, Andrew George Lehmann, James Wiegold, Marcus Cunliffe, Olive Wheeler, Joan Higgins, Douglas Kell, Norman Riley, Richard Meyer, Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield, Paul Glendinning, Anthony Trickett, Brian Hartley, Brian Runnett, George Redmayne Murray, Mark Pollicott, Ian Heilbron, David Ha...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=87240 ... Read more