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House of Meetings by Martin Amis
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "Hou ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meeti ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A magisterial, inventive and witty modern classic - Amis' autobiographical novel and arguably his most important masterpiece to date - the companion volume to EXPERIENCE 'The Mick Jagger of literature' Daily TelegraphLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere ...Show more
Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
âe~Why arenâe(tm)t you out smashing windows? Itâe(tm)s not healthyâe(tm) Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice (carry a knife) and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the ot ...Show more
London Fields by Martin Amis
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
London Fields is Martin Amis' murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts, or the rich ...Show more
Money A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" ("The New Republic") and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" ("The Times Literary Supplement") when it made its first appearance in the mid- 1980s, "Money" is Martin Amis's hilarious portrait of one man's relentless pursuit of pleasure.
Money - A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and mor ...Show more
The Information by Martin Amis
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Revenger's tragedy, comedy of errors, contemporary satire, Martin Amis's controversial number one hardcover bestseller is a return to the territory of Money and London Fields. How can one writer hurt another where it really counts -- his reputation? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, cont ...Show more
The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with character ...Show more
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism toward ...Show more
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
$21.95 NZD
Category: World fiction
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it does ...Show more