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	Martin Amis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist.
		The unparalleled size of the advance demanded and obtained by Amis for The Information attracted what Amis described as "an Eisteddfod of hostility" from writers and critics after he left his agent of many years, Pat Kavanagh, in order to be represented by the Harvard-educated Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie.
		Kavanagh is married to Julian Barnes, with whom Amis had been friends for many years, but the incident caused a rift that is generally regarded to be the inspiration for The Information which features two rival authors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Amis (1200 words)

	London Fields (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections and occasional musings on astrophysics, to a dark sense of foreboding and, eventually, panic as the deadline or "horrorday" — the climactic scene alluded to on the very first page — approaches.
		Amis explains the title of the novel in his preface, although somewhat obscurely.
		Young, normally unable to write good fiction, realises he can simply document the progress towards the murder to create a plausible, saleable, story and enters into a strange relationship with Six where he regularly interviews her and is updated on the "plot".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Fields_(novel) (704 words)

	MARTIN AMIS'S "MONEY" AND "TIME'S ARROW"
		Amis established himself as a comic writer with his first novel, but a comic writer whose subject is not the traditional subject of comedy.
		Amis has defended his technique of providing characters of severely limited perceptions with poetic thoughts by citing V.S. Pritchett's claim that ordinary people are filled with extraordinary, magical thoughts, but that they have no vocabulary with which to express them (Haffenden 8-9).
		By injecting a substitute author figure called "Martin Amis" into the novel Amis is further distancing the reader from Self and the insane lifestyle and values with which he is associated, a distance needed for the satire to be effective.
	www.csulb.edu /~bhfinney/Amis1.html (5641 words)

	Martin Amis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is an English novelist and son of Kingsley Amis.
		The unparalleled size of the advance demanded and obtained by Amis for The Information attracted what Amis described as "an Eisteddfod of hostility" from writers and critics; ironically, the main characters in The Information are rival authors who are jealous of various aspects of each other's lives.
		Martin Amis has released a collection of his short stories, under the title Heavy Water, and a collection of journalism entitled The War On Cliche.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Martin_Amis (386 words)

	Koba the Dread - Martin Amis
		Martin Amis' book is, for the most part, a cursory examination of the life of -- and the horrors perpetrated by -- Stalin.
		Amis the ranter (and son and father and writer) remains a prominent presence -- as does his father, one-time card-carrying Communist Kingsley, and various acquaintances, notably Christopher Hitchens.
		Amis doesn't really wonder why someone in Kingsley or Hitchens' position might have supported the Soviet regime, or voiced admiration or support for Lenin or anything of the sort; he merely presents a (fairly convincing) case for why doing so is insupportable.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/amism/kobad.htm (2818 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Martin Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Martin Amis was born in Oxford on 25 August 1949.
		In 1965 Kingsley Amis married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, and Martin Amis lived with and (if we are to believe him) in due course off, the couple, until graduating from Exeter College, Oxford in 1971.
		Later, in 1983, Howard and Amis senior were to divorce, and the last years of Amis junior’s father’s life were spent in a curious ménage with Hilly, who was now remarried, and her husband Lord Kilmarnock.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5097 (644 words)

	Amis, Martin
		Martin Amis was born on the 25th of August 1949 In fact, his childhood was turbulent as his family moved from Swansea in South Wales, to Princeton in the US to Majorca in Spain, onto Jamaicia in the West Indies for a spell, and finally back to North London.
		Martin Amis' father divorced his mother when Martin was 16 and remarried famous english writer Elizabeth Jane Howard.
		Amis was awarded the Booker Prize for his innovative work, Time's Arrow, wherein the narrative unfolds in reverse for the protaganist, but chose to refuse the honour, citing the elitist nature of the selection committee as the reason.
	id.essortment.com /amismartin_rqtp.htm (389 words)

	Kingsley Amis
		Martin Amis was born in 1949, and had Dickensian early years: "I slept in a drawer and had my baths in an outdoor sink.
		Amis was knighted in 1990 - according to Martin Amis he got it partly for being "audibly and visibly right-wing, or conservative/monarchist." He had three children from his first marriage to Hilary Bardwell; the separated in the mid 1960s.
		Amis was married from 1965 to 1983 to the novelist Elisabeth Jane Howard.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /amis.htm (1561 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Amis, Martin
		It is also an intimate portrait of fractures and healing in his family life, including the discovery of a long-lost daughter and the disappearance and murder of his cousin.
		Martin Amis's new novel Yellow Dog is the most eagerly awaited book of the year, dividing the literary world even before its publication.
		Martin Amis on politics, mortality - and snoozing in front of the snooker.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-4,00.html (640 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE WAR AGAINST CLICHÉ by Martin Amis
		Amis gets away with this highfalutin behavior because, unlike most critics, he has the kind of success as a novelist that makes charges of sour grapes irrelevant.
		I mention this to distinguish the places Amis chooses to write from the places he could write if he preferred to, namely literary journals, whose thick, non-glossy editions are sold to university libraries and guys in berets.
		What ultimately saves Martin Amis is that he is such a ham, so showbiz, so sentimental, even in a highly technical argument about the virtues of this or the drawbacks of that.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0786866748.asp (893 words)

	Night Train - Martin Amis
		"Martin Amis prefers [crime] bloody and for real and one of the strengths of his novel is that it never condescends or asks special favours.
		Amis writes well, and he has particular fun here, inventing jargon and turns of phrase for his characters in vague imitation of Chandler.
		Amis, though much vaunted as knowing America so well, has no ear whatsoever for authentic Americana, and so his efforts are, in turn, bemusing, bewildering, and annoying.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/amism/night.htm (1353 words)

	Martin Amis swings at Stalin and hits his own best friend instead. By Anne Applebaum
		Amis writes that "since 1929 the Soviet Union had been a reflection of Stalin's mind"—but totalitarianism did not function, as the novelist seems to imagine, like a magic beam of light that emanated from a single brain.
		Reading Amis' tale of horrors, tortures, and the human monster at the heart of it all, one would not know that ordinary people were involved at all.
		Amis himself didn't have the slightest interest in the Soviet Union for most of his life, except to oppose the missiles that were aimed at it; that's part of why he's so enthusiastically telling us all about it now.
	www.slate.com /?id=2069345 (1594 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews
		In 1994 and 1995, Amis underwent a technicolor, wide-screen epic of a midlife crisis.
		All Amis asks of Hitchens is "no sinister balls," their youthful trope for "no vehement expression of a left-wing tendency." Comically, disastrously, Hitchens spends the entire dinner in a pro-Palestinian assault on the state of Israel.
		Amis is at his best on the subject of his gruesome dental saga, which occupies many painful pages.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-09-01/books_vsbr.html (1034 words)

	Martin Amis: Between the Influences of Bellow and Nabokov
		With a mixture of anxiety and fascination, Amis chronicles the "cheapening of humanity," a phenomenon he attributes, partly, to the uniquely twentieth century prospect of total annihilation and partly to the fact that much of American (and more lately British) life is dedicated to televised "event glamour"--a phrase borrowed from Amis's mentor, Saul Bellow.
		Amis once said a writer is like a god--a predictable sentiment given the redeeming potential he attributes to literature.
		Amis was criticized for his insistence upon the truth of his "myth of decline," whereas Nabokov was able to comment with impunity.
	www.dactyl.org /amis.html (4253 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| The Martin Amis Experience
		Martin was Kingsley's second son, born in 1949 and brought up initially in Wales.
		Martin Amis, though feasting on a literary diet of mainly comics at boarding school in Brighton, eventually went up to Oxford and achieved the highest class degree in English.
		Amis believes there is a resentment at work amongst his critics, that he is regarded as "like the son of the lord of the manor who has inherited the estate by right of birth where others have had to struggle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/744791.stm (680 words)

	The Infography about Martin Amis (1949- )
		Faults Amis for participating in some of the power structures (especially heterosexist) he is ostensibly satirizing.
		"Bed and Bedlam: The Hard-Core Extravaganzas of Martin Amis." Literary Half-Yearly 23 (Jan. 1982): 36- 42.
		A tongue-in-cheek portrait of Martin Amis as high-powered literary figure and celebrity.
	www.infography.com /content/881493498516.html (1032 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Interview: Martin Amis
		Casually, and after some delay, Amis turns to Clio and is met by a look of such fierce devotion, blowing off the child in nuclear waves, that he bursts into laughter.
		When Amis pictures his own readers, it's himself he sees, at a younger age, which he admits is "kind of a wank".
		The only time I remember being in Martin's company that was painful, was when he insisted that I come and have lunch and meet his father and his father was being brutally insensitive about Vietnam.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1031580,00.html (1866 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Koba the Dread, 09-20-02
		Martin Amis, a mightily intelligent essayist and novelist, has worked himself into a lather over the inconsistencies of idealism and morality that characterize the West's regard for the Soviet dictatorship.
		Indeed, Amis' manuscript is no more than an elegantly vitriolic compendium of the "several yards of books about the Soviet Experiment" that he endeavored to read in the past decade, annotated with his own astute, if mildly hysterical, judgments.
		In the end, Amis has made a slight, if highly readable, contribution to the library of the twenty million, the books of which are probably already outnumbered by commemorations of our own, more recent domestic massacre.
	www.flakmag.com /books/koba.html (634 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Experience: A Memoir" by Martin Amis
		Martin Amis has been known as the bad boy of British letters for so long that it's easy to forget that last year he entered his sixth decade.
		Structurally, Amis spends two-thirds of the book jump-cutting between various eras and episodes of his life, from his adolescence to his relationship with Saul Bellow to a reunion with a teenage daughter he didn't know he had.
		Amis' nine novels and two short-story collections have been praised for their verbal virtuosity and their stylistic wonder, but criticized for their lack of soul and of humanity.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/05/26/amis (921 words)

	Featured Author: Martin Amis
		Amis creates a devastatingly specific portrait of the Nazis' warped mentality: only in a completely upside-down, backward world, he suggests, are their actions comprehensible.
		Martin Amis reveals that the glamorous London literary clique which he wrote about in an essay for the London Sunday Times was nothing more than an ironic invention.
		A deal paying Martin Amis over $700,000 for his novel ''The Information'' left a lot of hard feelings in London's literary circles, where commercial success is viewed warily by serious novelists.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/02/01/home/amis.html (746 words)

	Off the Page: Martin Amis (washingtonpost.com)
		Martin Amis: I once wrote, in The Information, that an Englishman wouldn't bother to attend a reading even if the author in question was his favorite living writer, and also his long-lost brother--even if the reading was taking place next door.
		Martin Amis: The fact that the real action starts with your obituaries is a satisfyingly symmetrical fate, because you won't be around to witness the response, one way or the other.
		Martin Amis: The most serious attempt to film a novel of mine (excluding The Rachel Papers and Dead Babies) was the attempt to make Money--with Gary Oldman and John Self.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A36420-2003Oct29.html (1507 words)

	Interview \| Martin Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Experience, Amis writes, "You arrive in each city and present yourself to its media; after that, in the evening, a mediated individual, you appear at the bookshop and perform." He's been down this road before.
		It was a move that Amis explains in Experience but that, at the time, was largely seen as highhandedness by an author completely filled with his own self-importance.
		John Updike described Amis' most recent novel, Night Train as having a "post-human" quality and while that may or may not be the case, when the likes of Updike think such a thing is noteworthy, the rest of us pay attention, as well.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/amis.html (3587 words)

	Martin Amis: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Martin Amis (born in Oxford Oxford quick summary:
		Time's Arrow drew notice both for its unusual technique - time runs backwards during the entire novel - as well as for its topic: It is the autobiography of a doctor who helped torture Jews during the Holocaust[For more info, click on this link].
		Martin Amis has released a collection of his short stories, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/martin_amis.htm (1060 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Martin Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amis incessantly lets his readers know that the world they’re in is a fictional world, and that fiction doesn’t merely represent reality, but produces it.
		Amis is obsessed with the power he wields over his characters.
		Martin Amis may think the contemporary world is in shambles, but it’s not so bad that writing won’t redeem it.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1232 (608 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: London Fields: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories and five collections of non-fiction.
		It may be the point of Martin Amis that while he's basically my favourite author ever, you still want to fizz him in the mush sometimes.
		I think that the final great thing about Amis is that he is conscientious about the environment et al, which just adds to the enjoyment and credibility of his moving writing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099748614 (1096 words)

	LA Weekly
		Koba the Dread ("Koba" was Stalin's childhood nickname) is about what Amis calls the "chief lacuna" of the 20th century: the failure of Western intellectuals to condemn the grotesque horrors perpetrated in the USSR even as they were happening, and their reluctance to fully repudiate some of their communist sympathies since.
		This "gap between words and deeds," Amis believes, is fertile ground for humor, and has allowed the horror of that time to be laughed off in a way the Nazi era could never be.
		Pondering the meaning of that laughter, Amis decides that it is born of the "universal fondness for that old, old idea about the perfect society." It is also the "laughter of forgetting": While everyone knows the names of the Eichmanns and Belsens, no one knows the names of their Russian equivalents.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/02/33/books-bernhard.php (1321 words)

	Review \| The War Against Cliché by Martin Amis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the late 1990s, Martin Amis took his place as the favored whipping boy of Brit lit crit.
		The offspring of a beloved British writer, it only stands to reason that Kingsley Amis' son would be viewed suspiciously right out of the starting gate -- and never mind that said gate was jumped three decades ago.
		Amis' most recent book, The War Against Cliché, reminds us of what it is about this writer that makes him so hard to completely put aside.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/waragainstamis.html (794 words)

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