Author: AMIS MARTIN
Title: The War Against Cliche, Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 ( Uncorrected Proof )
Description: London, Jonathan Cape. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224050591) Printer Wrapper, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Galley/Proof, Uncorrected proof in pale blue wrappers printed with black text, light wear to spine and corners, xv 490pp, Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche 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, ER. Leavis, Joseph Heller, 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, V. S. Pritchett and John Updike. Other subjects include chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, juvenile violence, Andy Warhol, Hillary Clinton and Margaret Thatcher. BOOKPROOF ISBN: 0 224 06726 5. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Literary Criticism Essays Reviews British Literature Fiction Uncorrected Proof Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, Er. Leavis, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, An


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