The Rub of Time
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-948872-9 (ISBN)
The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, perhaps inevitably, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016. One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump’s rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him.
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 131 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-09-948872-8 / 0099488728 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-09-948872-9 / 9780099488729 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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