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Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into Sunday and then, the assembled Sloanes, funny-guys and Americans in this satire on the Seventies.

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"Viciously funny, at once a hilarious joke and a technical triumph" (Financial Times)

"Sparkling might not be the first adjective that springs to mind to describe a novel packed with the concentrated disgust which Dead Babies contains. Nevertheless, Martin Amis's version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is so fizzing with style, so busy with verbal inventiveness, that the adjective is impelled upon one" (Julian Barnes)

"Very funny, extremely clever" (Guardian)

"A fine piece of comic-writing" (Times literary supplement)
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'It's transfixing - At first it's funny. It teases, exaggerates, deliberates. Then it becomes ferocious, stricken, moving' The Times

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
  • Publication date1975
  • ISBN 10 0224011677
  • ISBN 13 9780224011679
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages256
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