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Lionel Asbo
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-08-21
Lionel Asbo written by Martin Amis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with Fiction categories.
By turns outrageous and touching, an exuberant Dickensian satire of crime, celebrity, and modern culture from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME) “One of Amis’s funniest novels.” —The New Yorker Des Pepperdine is a boy out of place. He lives on the thirty-third floor of a London housing project; while his peers pick fights, Des retreats to the public library. What’s more, Des’s uncle and guardian, Lionel Asbo, is one of the most notorious petty criminals in the city. Yet Lionel, full of inept devotion to his nephew, dutifully teaches Des the essentials of becoming a man (always carry a knife; pornography is easier than dating; pit bulls should be fed Tabasco sauce). To survive these lessons, Des seeks solace in a covert romantic union that would fill Lionel with rage. But just as Des begins to lead a healthier life, Lionel wins £140 million in the lottery. The money ushers in a public-relations firm for Lionel, along with a cannily ambitious topless model–poet. Through it all, Lionel remains his vicious, oddly loyal self, and his problems, as well as Des’s, only seem to multiply.
Lionel Asbo
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-06-07
Lionel Asbo written by Martin Amis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with Fiction categories.
Lionel Asbo has just won £139,999,999.50 on the Lottery. A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel’s attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He showers him with fatherly advice (‘carry a knife’) and introduces Des to the joys of internet porn. Meanwhile, Des desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li’s psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff. But Lionel’s winnings are not necessarily all good news. For Des has a secret, and its discovery could unleash his uncle’s implacable vengeance. ‘One of Amis's funniest novels’ New Yorker ‘A book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely’ Observer
Lionel Asbo
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Author : Martin Amis
language : pt-BR
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-01-22
Lionel Asbo written by Martin Amis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-22 with Fiction categories.
Lionel Asbo sobrevive de negócios escusos no subúrbio de Londres. Mas o que ele mais gosta de fazer mesmo é espancar aqueles que ousam se colocar em seu caminho no distrito de Diston Town, onde mora com o sobrinho Desmond Pepperdine e seus dois pitbulls, Joe e Jeff. A vida na pequena criminalidade é uma verdadeira vocação. Desde a infância, ele acumula episódios de arruaça e passagens por diversas prisões inglesas. Não à toa, decidiu mudar seu registro de batismo, adotando como sobrenome a sigla Asbo (em inglês, Condição de Comportamento Antissocial). Filho caçula de sete irmãos (todos, menos ele e a irmã Cilla, batizados com nomes dos Beatles: John, Paul, George, Ringo e até o “esquecido” Stuart), Lionel tem uma namorada, Cynthia, que conhece desde a infância. Mas a pessoa mais próxima dele é o sobrinho Desmond, em tudo diferente do tio. Se Lionel tem um físico atarracado e pálido, típico dos ingleses de classe média baixa, Desmond chama a atenção por seu porte esguio e por sua pele morena, herdada do pai (um negro que sua mãe não encontrou mais que duas vezes na vida). Sem ter conhecido o pai, Desmond perde também a mãe na adolescência. A partir de então, algumas de suas características se acentuam: a timidez, o romantismo, a dedicação aos estudos e o cuidado com os outros, especialmente com seu tio arruaceiro, que Desmond tenta manter sob controle. Desmond é a esperança da família, ainda que entre os Pepperdine apenas a avó Grace pareça dar a ele o seu devido valor. Para complicar as atribulações de Lionel e Desmond, uma das primeiras namoradas do rapaz é ninguém menos que a própria avó Grace, ainda inteirona na casa dos quarenta anos. A história incestuosa com a mãe de seu tio facínora irá atormentar a consciência torturada e retraída de Desmond, até que um acontecimento imprevisível mudará completamente os rumos desta história: Lionel Asbo ganha 140 milhões de libras na loteria.
Yellow Dog
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-23
Yellow Dog written by Martin Amis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with Fiction categories.
'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny’ Guardian When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the 'yellow' journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; the porno tycoon, Cora Susan; and Royce Traynor, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zizhen; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. 'As funny as Dead Babies, as blackly portentous as London Fields and as satirically on-the-nail as Money' Mail on Sunday
The Pregnant Widow
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-07-31
The Pregnant Widow written by Martin Amis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with Fiction categories.
‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday Times An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath. Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies’s emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects. 'Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language' Financial Times
Inside Story
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Inside Story written by Martin Amis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Fiction categories.
An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die—from “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction” (The Daily Telegraph). “[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction ... Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times This novel 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 Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps—an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers—Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin—and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, he winds up surveying the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first—and considers what all of this has taught him about how to live and how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life—and to the people in his life—that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.
The Zone Of Interest
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2014-09-30
The Zone Of Interest written by Martin Amis and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Fiction categories.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz. "A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." —San Francisco Chronicle Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time's Arrow. He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet"—the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler's private secretary, in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history. An epilogue by the author elucidates Amis's reasons and method for undertaking this extraordinary project.
The Information
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-23
The Information written by Martin Amis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with Fiction categories.
Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes, prestige and wealth abound, and from far below Tull can only watch, stewing in torment. Until, that is, resentment turns to revenge. Consumed by the question of how one writer can really hurt another, Tull’s quest for an answer will unleash increasingly violent urges on both writers’ lives. ‘A funny, vicious portrait of literary London’ Evening Standard
Experience
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-09-17
Experience written by Martin Amis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. “Superb memoir...a moving account of [Amis’s] coming of age as an artist and a man.” —San Francisco Chronicle The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others. Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been recorded by such an inimitable talent. Profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest, Experience is a literary event.
Dead Babies
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Author : Martin Amis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-01-26
Dead Babies written by Martin Amis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-26 with Fiction categories.
If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME). “Amis is a born comic novelist in the tradition that ranges from Dickens to Waugh.... [His] mercurial style…can rise to Joycean brilliance” —Newsweek "Amis's version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is...fizzing with style, [and] busy with verbal inventiveness." —Julian Barnes, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of "dead babies"—dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.