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House of Meetings House of Meetings
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 2010
   An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.
 
Koba The Dread Koba The Dread
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 2009
   Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author's father, Kingsley Amis, was 'a Comintern dogsbody' (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and later in life his closest friend, was Robert Conquest, whose book The Great Terror was second only to Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. Amis's remarkable memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'. Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism.
 
Dead Babies Dead Babies
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 223 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 2011
   Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths.
 
Time's Arrow or Nature of Offence Time's Arrow or Nature of Offence
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 2009
   Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home-Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.
 
The Rachel Papers The Rachel Papers
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 2009
   Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care — but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.
 
Vintage Amis Vintage Amis
Автор: Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 2009
   Equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography, Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. «Vintage Amis» displays this versatility in an excerpt from the author’s award-winning memoir, «Experience»; the “Horrorday” chapter from «London Fields»; a vignette from his novel «Money»; the stories “State of England”, “Insight at Flam Lake” and “Coincidence of the Arts”; and the essays “Visiting Mrs. Nabokov”, “Phantom of the Opera”. Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story “Porno’s Last Summer”.
 
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 2011
   Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for «The Guardian beginning», ‘It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment’. And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, 'In the Palce of the End' and 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta'. All are collected here, together with an expanded account of his travels with Tony Blair in 2007 — to Belfast, to Washington, and to Baghdad and Basra. 'We are arriving at an axiom in long-term thinking about international terrorism', he writes: 'the real danger lies, not in what it inflicts, but in what it provokes. Thus by far the gravest consequence of September 11, to date, is Iraq ... Meanwhile, September 11 continues, it goes on, with all its mystery, its instability, and its terrible dynamism'.
 
Money: A Suicide Note Money: A Suicide Note
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 2009
   This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.
 
Pregnant Widow Pregnant Widow
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 2013
   The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though dedicated to the cause they have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory--or, as Alexander Herzen put it, a pregnant widow. Twenty years old and on vacation from college, Keith and an assortment of his peers are spending the long, hot summer in a castle in Italy. The tragicomedy of manners that ensues will have an indelible effect on all its participants, and we witness, too, how it shapes Keith's subsequent love life for decades. Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives being carried away on a sea of change.
 
London Fields London Fields
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 470 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 2010
   The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Taking a small pocket of time and a richly diverse part of London, Martin Amis dissects the nature of a society as it hurtles towards the millennium.
 

 

 

 

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