The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 24 July 2026
- 20 August 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009618090
- 9781009618076
- 9781009618045
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.507kg, 272 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.446kg, 272 Pages
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Book description
Over a career spanning fifteen novels, two short story collections, and eight volumes of nonfiction, Sir Martin Amis helped to define his era. Through his published work and public commentaries, his voice featured prominently in the important socio-literary debates of his time. His work contributes to literary discussions about realism, postmodernism, satire, and comedy, and his core themes range across the Holocaust, nuclear anxiety, apocalyptic millennialism and, more recently, the war on terror. His words were rarely without controversy. This Companion identifies the essential elements of Amis's work and then evaluates their potential for longevity. From his earliest publications in the 1970's to his death as one of England's most well-known writers in 2023, Amis was an outspoken critic of social myopia: how societies – and their citizens – continually choose selfishness over altruism, fatalism over improvement, and blindness over enlightenment.
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‘The book goes some way towards answering the very question its own existence poses. Indeed, it is very much to the credit of the editor, Gavin Keulks, that no conclusion is imposed on the discussion. His thorough introduction reveals the unresolved diff ... .'
Peter Lonsdale Source: The Irish Times
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