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Article: MARTIN AMIS PONDERS NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 30, 1987
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EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS, by Martin Amis. Harmony. 149 pp.
$12.95.
Just as I was thinking that no century could possibly be dumber
than the nineteenth, along came the twentieth."
Thus snipes one of the grotesques in Martin Amis' story
collection, "Einstein's Monsters," and you get the drift. On the
one hand the line seems exactly the raucous, inappropriate blast of
charmlessness one welcomed in Amis' wild novel, "Money." On the
other, it suggests the entire point of view of this volume so
admirably concerned with the coming nuclear apocalypse. To Amis,
some, maybe most, people "just don't get it." Either infantile or
sociopathic, the extremists grow ever more surreal. At the ...