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War Against Cliche : Essays and Reviews 1, Paperback by Amis, Martin, ISBN 0375727167, ISBN-13 9780375727160, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Compiles essays discussing, and in some cases condemning, such people and topics as movie violence, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Dickens, Michael Crichton, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, poker, and world literature. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Is there anything that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches-not only of the pen, but of the mind and the heart. In The War Against Clich , Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the past three decades. On every page Amis writes with jaw-dropping felicity, wit, and a subversive brilliance that sheds new light on everything he touches.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375727167
ISBN-13
9780375727160
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Book Title
War Against Cliché : Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Author
Martin Amis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books & Reading, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
528 Pages

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8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
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Item Weight
15 oz

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Pr6051.M5w37 2002
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"Irresistible. . . . The man's a genius with words. . . . Whatever Amis has to say about a book or a writer seems just right--and lip smackingly phrased." --The Washington Post "Brilliant prose. . . .[Amis] proselytizes for talent by demonstrating it, by doing it. . . . He is a master." The New York Times Book Review "Whatever the book, there is no one whose review of it you'd rather read than Amis's. His prose is always buzzing, so much so that he doesn't just review books, he rewrites them." --San Francisco Chronicle "[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache. . . . Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers mature." --The New York Times, "Irresistible. . . . The man's a genius with words. . . . Whatever Amis has to say about a book or a writer seems just right--and lip smackingly phrased." -- The Washington Post "Brilliant prose. . . .[Amis] proselytizes for talent by demonstrating it, by doing it. . . . He is a master." - The New York Times Book Review "Whatever the book, there is no one whose review of it you'd rather read than Amis's. His prose is always buzzing, so much so that he doesn't just review books, he rewrites them." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache. . . . Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers mature." -- The New York Times, "Irresistible. . . . The man's a genius with words. . . . Whatever Amis has to say about a book or a writer seems just right--and lip smackingly phrased." -- The Washington Post "Brilliant prose. . . .[Amis] proselytizes for talent by demonstrating it, by doing it. . . . He is a master." The New York Times Book Review "Whatever the book, there is no one whose review of it you'd rather read than Amis's. His prose is always buzzing, so much so that he doesn't just review books, he rewrites them." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache. . . . Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers mature." -- The New York Times
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2002
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