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      The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

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      Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris - and John Updike.

      Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-e...

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      Product ID:9780099422228
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:The War Against Cliche
      Subtitle:Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
      Authors:Author: Martin Amis
      Page Count:528
      Subjects:Literary essays, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cultural studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Cultural studies
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris - and John Updike.

      Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, F. R. Leavis, V. S. Pritchett, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Angus Wilson, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Shiva and V. S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris - and John Updike.

      Other subjects include chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, juvenile violence, Andy Warhol, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Thatcher.


      Imprint Name:Vintage
      Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2002-03-07

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      Weight364 g
      Dimensions236 × 133 × 33 mm