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Einstein's Monsters
Martin Amis
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Description for Einstein's Monsters
Paperback. An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny. There is maximum boredom and minimum love-making advised, while a new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'. This book offers a collection of stories that reveal a deep preoccupation. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.
An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.
The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099768913
SKU
9780099768913
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his ... Read more
Reviews for Einstein's Monsters
A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours
Sunday Times
Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath
Observer
Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged ... Read more
Sunday Times
Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath
Observer
Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged ... Read more