The War Against Cliche by Amis, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Foreword On Masculinity and Related Questions

Zeus and the Garbage I Am in Blood Stepp’d in So Far A PM, a President, and a First Lady The World and I Elvis and Andy: US Males Bad Dreams What’s Your Favourite?

Some English Prose

In Praise of Pritchett Kith of Death: Angus Wilson Iris and Love J.G. Ballard Anthony Burgess: Jack Be Quick Shorter Shrift The D.M. Thomas Phenomenon

Philip Larkin

The Beginning: Larval Larkin The Ending: Don Juan in Hull

From the Canon

Coleridge’s Beautiful Diseases Tinkering with Jane Sticking up for Milton The Darker Dickens Donne the Apostate Waugh’s Mag. Op.; Wodehouse’s Sunset Lowry: In the Volcano

Popularity Contest

Chandler Prolonged Park II Maintaining on Elmore Leonard Half Wolfe Bob Sneed Broke the Silence

Vladimir Nabokov

Life Lectures Plays Letters Lolita’s Little Sister

Some American Prose

Mailer’s Lows and Highs Vidal’s Mirror Philip Roth and the Self The Name Is William Burroughs Kurt’s Cosmos Truman’s Remembrance Don DeLillo’s Powers Even Later

Obsessions and Curiosities

Chess Is Their Life Football Mad The School of Doyle Believe It or Else No Laughing Matter

John Updike

Life Class

Ultramundane

Here Comes Everybody Russian Ghost Nothing is Deserved and Everything is Accepted Educated Monsters No Way More Bones

Great Books

Broken Lance Force of Love The War Against Cliché The American Eagle Nabokov’s Grand Slam

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