War Against Cliche Essays & Reviews

Amis, Martin

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This volume consists of a selection of the author’s reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It covers the work of other writers and topics including chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship and juvenile violence.

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Publish Date: 07/03/2002

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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.

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Weight 362 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 31 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

505

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

809 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K