The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
9780375727160
ISBN 13: 9780375727160
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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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, and with the deadly cliches–not only of the pen, but of the mind and the heart.
In The War Against Cliché, Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the past three decades. On every page Amis writes with jaw-dropping felicity, wit, and a subversive brilliance that sheds new light on everything he touches.
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"[A] collection of material so sharp it reminds you not only of why he was invited to the party in the first place, but why he might stay longer than some of the other literary loudmouths....[T]he utter concentration of close and repeated reading combined with a determined nonchalance about drawing a larger conclusion... is what makes the book such a riot to read. "
Daniel Handler, Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.), 11/18/2001
Review:"[The] reviews in this volume are consistently cogent, often illuminating and almost always entertaining. Though the pieces in this book range over a variety of subjects..., it is as a literary critic that Mr. Amis distinguishes himself....[T]here's an unaccommodated love of literature in these pages, a fervent belief in the transformative powers of fiction and the magical properties of words to conjure beauty and wisdom."
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 12/11/2001
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