Martin Amis

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born

August 25, 1949 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.martinamisweb.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

influences

Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis

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Martin Amis is an English novelist, essayist and short story writer. His works include the novels Money, London Fields and The Information.

The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] 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."

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."

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Books by Martin Amis

Average rating: 3.59 · 22,480 ratings · 2,276 reviews · 47 distinct works

	Time's Arrow 3.78 avg rating — 3,210 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Money 3.65 avg rating — 3,448 ratings — published 1984 — 20 editions	My rating:
	London Fields 3.78 avg rating — 2,834 ratings — published 1989 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Rachel Papers 3.54 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 1973 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Information 3.60 avg rating — 1,500 ratings — published 1995 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Night Train 3.18 avg rating — 1,216 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Dead Babies 3.28 avg rating — 1,107 ratings — published 1975 — 15 editions	My rating:
	House of Meetings 3.42 avg rating — 883 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Experience: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Success by Martin Amis, Marty Asher (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 1977 — 10 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Martin Amis

“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”
― Martin Amis, Other People

tags: inspirational

66 people liked it

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
― Martin Amis, London Fields

tags: age , aging , life , time

63 people liked it

“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”
― Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note

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