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The War Against Cliche

Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

By Martin Amis

By Martin Amis

By Martin Amis

By Martin Amis

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Jul 16, 2002 | ISBN 9780375727160

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Sep 17, 2014 | ISBN 9781101910252

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    About The War Against Cliche

    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 Cliché, 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.

    About The War Against Cliche

    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 Cliché, 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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    About Martin Amis

    MARTIN AMIS is the author of fourteen previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn.

    About Martin Amis

    MARTIN AMIS is the author of fourteen previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn.

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 16, 2002 | 528 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375727160

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 17, 2014 | 528 Pages | ISBN 9781101910252
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    Praise

    "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

    Awards

    National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER

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