Martin Amis

If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking …

Em Casa de Encontros , Martin Amis se vale de recursos ficcionais para revelar dimensões obscuras do totalitarismo. O livro narra o acerto de contas de um velho russo com um passado que ainda o assombra. Ex-combatente da Segunda Guerra Mundial, ele esteve confinado durante mais de dez anos num campo de trabalhos …

"A cidade ofende. A gente defende." A detetive Mike Hoolihan não é dada a muita filosofia. Mas até sua rudeza lacônica é abalada diante da imagem de Jennifer Rockwell: nua, linda, sentada numa cadeira do quarto, uma toalha enrolada na cabeça - e morta. Mike identifica ali os sinais clássicos do suicídio: a posição da …

The Rachel Papers is Martin Amis' first novel, published in 1973 by Jonathan Cape.

In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ide-caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. London is a city now inundated by a primeval swamp, to which an expedition travels to record the flora and …

Escrito ao longo de cinco anos, A informação é um exemplo da irreverência lingüística e da ousadia temática que tornaram Martin Amis conhecido no mundo todo. Com seu cáustico senso de humor, um dos mais talentosos autores contemporâneos evolui com desenvoltura no mundo competitivo em que vivem seus protagonistas. …

Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides …

London Fields is a black comic, murder mystery novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989. Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the …

Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.