Martin Amis

The Rachel Papers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As Charlesâ s twentieth birthday â and the Oxford entrance exams â loom, his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a private collection of obsessional notes and observations: the eponymous â Rachel Papersâ .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9780099455424
• ISBN-10: 0099455420
• Artikelnr.: 23341264

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving Peter Ackroyd