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The rub of time, Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump : essays and reportage, 1994-2017, Martin Amis

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The rub of time, Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump : essays and reportage, 1994-2017, Martin Amis

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eng

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index present

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essays

Main title

The rub of time

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987279062

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Martin Amis

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Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump : essays and reportage, 1994-2017

Summary

"A scintillating collection of essays, reportage and criticism by one of most provocative and widely read novelists of our time, with new commentary by the author. For decades now, Martin Amis has turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics--politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature. ... Over twenty years' worth of these incomparable essays are gathered together here, ranging from Bellow and Nabokov, his "twin peaks," to Roth, DeLillo, Philip Larkin and Jane Austen; from such peculiar worlds as Las Vegas and the pornography business to figures including Princess Diana, John Travolta and Christopher Hitchens. And running through The Rub of Time is politics, whether in Trump-era America, Britain, Iran, Colombia or elsewhere. From the earliest pieces to the most recent, this is Martin Amis at his prime: brilliant, incisive and savagely funny."--Jacket flap

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