Martin Amis

Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. He is the author of some of Britain's best-known modern literature, particularly Money (1986) and London Fields (1989), and the creator of several of fiction's most memorable characters since Charles Dickens.

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Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive style, including Zadie Smith. The Guardian writes that "ll his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style ... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop." http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-4,00.html

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Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the 'postmodern' condition and the excesses of late-capitalist Western society with its grotesque caricatures. He is thus sometimes portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times interprets as "the new unpleasantness." http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/01/home/amis-stout.html

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August 25: August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining....

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