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Martin Amis

Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta

Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta

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Martin Amis is a renowned novelist known for his non-fiction writing, including essays, literary criticism, and journalism. His collection, The Rub of Time, features critical pieces on authors such as Nabokov, Bellow, and Larkin, as well as humorous ruminations on various topics, including sport, Las Vegas, and the pornography industry. The book also includes essays on politics, particularly the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016. Despite Donald Trump's rise to power, Amis is there to provide commentary on the situation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 20 September 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.

The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, perhaps inevitably, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016. One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump’s rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him.

Weight: 278g
Dimension: 196 x 128 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780099488729

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