Author:Martin Amis
Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. 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
—— IndependentAmis's gifts - vigilance, wit, energy of language... A collection that reaffirms him as the suavest and funniest critic of his generation
—— Mail on SundayWe have here a literary critic of startling power... Often being right and being funny are, in this book, aspects of the same sentence... Amis is the best practitioner-critic of our day - just what Pritchett was in his prime...
—— London Review of Books[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache... Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers mature
—— New York TimesBrilliant prose... [Amis] proselytizes for talent by demonstrating it, by doing it... He is a master
—— New York Times Book ReviewA perceptive, tears-trickling-down-the-side-of-your-nose-on-the-bus brilliant read
—— CompanyMoving and intelligent
—— IndependentA poignant tale of life, love and loss
—— MirrorTraditional, light-hearted romantic fiction at its best
—— Literary ReviewPoignant and humorous
—— NowA buoyant tale that will have you laughing and crying from start to finish
—— Woman's JournalThe twists and turns in the plot will leave you dizzy
—— New WomanThe story is original and the suspense is skilfully built. An infuriatingly enjoyable feel-good read
—— The ListAn engaging and original plot
—— New Statesman
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