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Einstein's Monsters Martin Amis

Einstein's Monsters By Martin Amis

Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis


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The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: 'Einstein's Monsters refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'

Einstein's Monsters Summary

Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.

The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: 'Einstein's Monsters refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'

Einstein's Monsters Reviews

A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours * Sunday Times *
Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath * Observer *
Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book * Daily Telegraph *

About Martin Amis

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.

Additional information

GOR001303965
9780099768913
0099768917
Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
Used - Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
19990603
128
N/A
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