Synopsis
About Martin Amis
See more books from this AuthorAmis (The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies) seems quite purposely--perversely, even--to have made his mystery capable of any number of interpretations: the carefully orchestrated hints (recurring words, suggestive names) will keep susceptible readers tuned in, even when Mary's much-exploited innocence ...
Jun 01 1981 | Read Full Review of Other PeopleIn ""Career Move,"" much admired when it appeared in the New Yorker six years ago, poets swagger around Hollywood in an atmosphere of big movie deals and heroin-fueled script conferences, while screenplay authors attend eager readings of each other's work and vie desperately for publication in ep...
| Read Full Review of Other PeopleWe aren't even told when the events Amis ( Time's Arrow ) covers took place.
| Read Full Review of Other PeopleAmis's darkly comic study of an amnesiac young woman and the construction of selfhood.
| Read Full Review of Other PeopleThose of us who have read the novel – yes, even the Edinburgh clerkesses – will be able to label his review ‘slight’ of a different (baser) kind.
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