28 followers
(b.Martin Amis is an English novelist, essayist and short story writer, the son of writer Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as London Fields (1989) and The Information (1995). Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness."
The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style ... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."
The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style ... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Rachel Papers (1973)
Dead Babies (1975)
aka Dark Secrets
Success (1978)
Other People (1981)
Money (1984)
London Fields (1989)
Time's Arrow (1991)
The Information (1995)
Night Train (1997)
Yellow Dog (2003)
The Pregnant Widow (2010)
Lionel Asbo (2012)
The Zone of Interest (2014)
Inside Story (2020)
Dead Babies (1975)
aka Dark Secrets
Success (1978)
Other People (1981)
Money (1984)
London Fields (1989)
Time's Arrow (1991)
The Information (1995)
Night Train (1997)
Yellow Dog (2003)
The Pregnant Widow (2010)
Lionel Asbo (2012)
The Zone of Interest (2014)
Inside Story (2020)
Omnibus
Collections
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Two Stories (1994)
God's Dice (1995)
Heavy Water (1998)
Vintage Amis (2004)
House of Meetings (2006)
Two Stories (1994)
God's Dice (1995)
Heavy Water (1998)
Vintage Amis (2004)
House of Meetings (2006)
Chapbooks
Non fiction
Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982)
The Moronic Inferno (1986)
Visiting Mrs Nabokov (1993)
Experience (2000)
The War Against Cliche (2001)
Koba the Dread (2002)
Pornoland (2004) (with Stefano de Luigi)
The Second Plane (2008)
The Rub of Time (2017)
The Moronic Inferno (1986)
Visiting Mrs Nabokov (1993)
Experience (2000)
The War Against Cliche (2001)
Koba the Dread (2002)
Pornoland (2004) (with Stefano de Luigi)
The Second Plane (2008)
The Rub of Time (2017)
Anthologies containing stories by Martin Amis
Realms of Darkness (1985)
The New Gothic (1991)
The King Is Dead (1994)
Splatterpunks II (1995)
Cybersex (1996)
The New Gothic (1991)
The King Is Dead (1994)
Splatterpunks II (1995)
Cybersex (1996)
Short stories
| Denton's Death (1976) | |||
| Heavy Water [short story] (1978) | |||
| Let Me Count the Times (1980) | |||
| Elvis: He Did It His Way (1981) | |||
| Brian De Palma: The Movie Brute (1984) | |||
| The Time Disease (1987) | |||
| Horrorday (excerpt) (1989) | |||
| Career Move (1992) | |||
| Straight Fiction (1995) | |||
| State of England (1996) | |||
| What Happened to Me On My Holiday (1997) | |||
| The Coincidence of the Arts [short story] (1998) | |||
| The Janitor on Mars (1998) |
Awards
|
Books about Martin Amis
Martin Amis recommends
Americana (1971)
Don DeLillo
"He's a writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he's done."
The Embedding (1973)
Ian Watson
"Enthralling ... It gave one the sense of being led very near to the brink of profundity, even revelation."
Oswald's Tale (1995)
Norman Mailer
"Mailer has written some pretty crazy books in his time, but this isn't one of them. Like its predecessor, Harlot's Ghost, it is the performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity."
Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012)
Edmund White
"Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller, relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience. In Jack Holmes and His Friend, White's trio is in frictionless accord."
Latest Readings (2015)
Clive James
"Clive James is perhaps the most original and distinctive literary critical voice of the last half-century."
Visitors also looked at these authors