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The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
The Rub of Time - Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump and Other Pieces 1986-2016 by Martin Amis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
$23.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty- that was the defining moment. And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short s ...Show more
The Second Plane : September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for "The Guardian" beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' In the years that passed since then, he has returned to the subject again and again, in revi ...Show more
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Surely his masterpiece...Intelligent, terrifying and comic...Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, and shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop aski ...Show more
The Zone of Interest indent by Martin Amis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul - it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn't look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No ...Show more
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home...Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worke ...Show more