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Article: The Novelist's Left Hand.(The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000, by Martin Amis, New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2001. xv +506 pp.
KINGSLEY AMIS, MARTIN AMIS: one can scarcely say at this point who is the more illustrious, father or son. It is clear, though, that time is on the side of Amis fils, who, still in his early fifties, has published eleven books of fiction--among them Money (1984), London Fields (1989), and Time's Arrow (1991)--and has at the same time established himself as a man of letters in the traditional sense, with such works as Visiting Mrs. Nabokov (1994) and the memoir Experience (2000) to his credit. The War Against Cliche is a garner of Martin Amis's ...
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Article: Why life is not art for Martin Amis; Paperback of ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);
March 26, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... DAVID SEXTON Experience, by Martin Amis (Vintage, [pound]7.99 ... another half-and-half book from Martin Amis, half good. It s a memoir, organised ... argument that life experience is a cliche,, a miserable enemy , compared ...
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