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