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The War Against Cliche
- Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Engelsk Paperback
The War Against Cliche
- Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Engelsk Paperback

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Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career.

The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays. 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.

A tour de force in which every paragraph uncoils with vertiginous twists and turns, lightning metaphors, genuine learning, unstoppable laughter, and a passionate sense of literary pleasure’ Independent

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
528
ISBN-13:
9780099422228
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0099422220
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Udg. Dato:
7 mar 2002
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
133mm
Højde:
236mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
7 mar 2002
Forfatter(e):
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