Is there _anything_ that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and _Penthouse_ Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, a
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
โ Scribed by Amis, Martin
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2014;2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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