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(0)Martin Amis
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Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change.
"A nearly perfect comic novel.” —New York Magazine
The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle...
"A nearly perfect comic novel.” —New York Magazine
The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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.
House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance: two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old
...4) Inside story
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A scintillating collection of essays, reportage and criticism by one of most provocative and widely read novelists of our time, with new commentary by the author. For decades now, Martin Amis has turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics--politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. ... Over twenty years' worth of these incomparable essays are gathered together here, ranging from Bellow...
9) Yellow dog
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of five different men, including Xan Meo, who suffers a personality change following a brutal assault, and King Henry IX of England, whose life is complicated by his incapacitated wife and his Chinese mistress.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at...
16) Captive hearts
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Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of a sudden, Meguni finds himself kneeling at Suzuka's feet and prostrating himself like a servant! What Megumi doesn't know (until that very moment anyway) is that his family is cursed to follow the orders of the Kogami family. Being carried around everywhere and having handsome Megumi act like a slave may seem ideal, but Suzuka...
