Vintage Amis

A perfect introduction to one of the worlds greatest modern writers who is equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography. Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.The Seattle Times Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. Vintage Amis displays this versatility in an excerpt from the authors award-winning memoir, Experience; the Horrorday chapter from London Fields; a vignette from his novel Money; the stories State of England, Insight at Flam Lake, and Coincidence of the Arts; and the essays Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, Phantom of the Opera. Also...