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Invasion of the Space Invaders

Discusses the enormous success of arcade video games, describes the most interesting games, and looks at the increasing popularity of home video games

By Martin Amis

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9780890873519 | Celestial Arts, November 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Discusses the enormous success of arcade video games, describes the most interesting games, and looks at the increasing popularity of home video games

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America: And Other Visits to America

Displays the author's British wit in essays on American novelists; encounters with Hugh Hefner, Steven Spielberg, evangelists, and Elvis's ghost; and accounts of the Claus von Bulow case, the AIDS epidemic, and the Atlanta child murders

By Martin Amis

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9780670814329 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Displays the author's British wit in essays on American novelists; encounters with Hugh Hefner, Steven Spielberg, evangelists, and Elvis's ghost; and accounts of the Claus von Bulow case, the AIDS epidemic, and the Atlanta child murders

Einstein's Monsters

This collection of five short stories about nuclear war includes a story of escalating paranoia as seen by a twelve-year-old (view table of contents)

By Martin Amis

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9780517565209 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $1.99 | About this edition: This collection of five stories about nuclear war includes a story of escalating paranoia as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old

Paperback:

9780679729969 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 17, 1990), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This collection of five short stories about nuclear war includes a story of escalating paranoia as seen by a twelve-year-old

Success

Product Description: In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry...read more

By Martin Amis

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9780517566497 | Harmony Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $0.99 | About this edition: Doomed to a mediocre existence, Terry suddenly finds his fortunes reversed with Gregory Riding, the rich and powerful foster brother he hates

Paperback:

9780679734482 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat.

Granta 25: Murder

By Martin Amis and Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140086089 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1989, cover price $7.95

London Fields

Cursed with premonitions since childhood, Nicola forsees her own murder, and sets out to make the two most likely suspects pay in advance for what one of them is going to do to her (view table of contents)

By Martin Amis

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9780517577189 | Harmony Books, February 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Cursed with premonitions since childhood, Nicola forsees her own murder, and sets out to make the two most likely suspects pay in advance for what one of them is going to do to her

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9780679730347 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Cursed with premonitions since childhood, Nicola forsees her own murder, and sets out to make the two most likely suspects pay in advance for what one of them is going to do to her

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781558002746 | Dove Entertainment Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $15.95

Dead Babies

By Martin Amis

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9780679734499 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $15.95

Time's Arrow

Product Description: In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly 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. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense...read more

By Martin Amis

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9780517585153 | Harmony Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Escaping from the body of a dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's conciousness begins living the doctor's life backward, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780679409144 | Random House, January 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T.

Times Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense

By Martin Amis

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9780517112694 | Outlet, October 1, 1992, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T.

9780679735724, titled "Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Escaping from the body of a dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backward, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions

Product Description: To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Martin Amis

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9780517597026 | Harmony Books, February 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss Salman Rushdie, John Lennon, the 1992 Republican convention, John Updike, J.

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9780679757931 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels.

Other People: A Mystery Story

When a young woman wakes up in a London hospital with total amnesia and an altered sense of reality, the mystery is not only who had done this to her, but what has been done

By Martin Amis

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9780679735892 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: When a young woman wakes up in a London hospital with total amnesia and an altered sense of reality, the mystery is not only who had done this to her, but what has been done

The Information

Literary critic and unpublished novelist Richard Tull allows his jealousy of his oldest friend, best-selling novelist Gwyn Barry, to get the best of him, a situation complicated by a local crime boss, who is having an affair with Tull's wife. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. NYT.

By Martin Amis

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9780517701553 | Limited edition (Harmony Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The Limited Edition of Martin Amis's magnificent novel of literary envy.

9780517585160 | Harmony Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Literary critic and unpublished novelist Richard Royce allows his jealousy of his oldest friend, best-selling novelist Gwyn Barry, to get the best of him, a situation complicated by a local crime boss, who is having an affair with Royce's wife

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9780679735731 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1996), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Literary critic and unpublished novelist Richard Royce allows his jealousy of his oldest friend, best-selling novelist Gwyn Barry, to get the best of him, a situation complicated by a local crime boss, who is having an affair with Royce's wife

Night Train

Britain's premier novelist presents his first mystery, involving the alleged suicide of the brilliant daughter of a police officer, whose hidden life was one of drugs, casual sex, and madness. By the author of The Information. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. NYT.

By Martin Amis

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Hardcover:

9781568955704 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, June 1, 1998), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all.

9780609601280 | Harmony Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The alleged suicide of the brilliant daughter of a police officer leads to the discovery of her hidden life of drugs, casual sex, and madness

Paperback:

9780375701146 | Vintage Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A female detective named Mike Hoolihan investigates the murder of her commanding officer's daughter, whose death was staged to look like a suicide

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787117245 | Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The alleged suicide of the brilliant daughter of a police officer leads to the discovery of her hidden life of drugs, casual sex, and madness.

Night Train: O.M. Edition

By Martin Amis

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9780375702525 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1998, cover price $7.00 | also contains Mark of the Thief: Library Edition

Heavy Water and Other Stories

The followup to the bestselling Night Train includes short fiction pieces written as far back as the 1970s and as recently as 1997, several of which have never before been published, featuring such works as 'State of England,' 'Straight Fiction,' and 'Career Move.' Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Martin Amis

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Hardcover:

9780783886213 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1999), cover price $29.95

9780375706509 | Vintage Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $7.00 | also contains Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century: An Institutional Approach | About this edition: "Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius.

9780609601297 | Harmony Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The follow-up to the best-selling Night Train includes short fiction pieces written as far back as the 1970s and as recently as 1997, several of which have never before been published.

Paperback:

9780375701153, titled "Heavy Water: And Other Stories" | Vintage Books, March 14, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction pieces includes several previously unpublished works, and features 'State of England,' 'Straight Fiction,' and 'Career Move.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787119126, titled "Heavy Water: And Other Stories" | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, February 1, 1999), cover price $25.00

Experience

By Martin Amis

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9780224061254 | Lea edition (Vintage Uk, May 18, 2000), cover price $253.55

Experience: A Memoir

The author of Heavy Water and Other Stories traces his life and career, examining his relationship with his father, comic novelist Kingsley Amis, the changing literary scene in Great Britain and the United States, and the impact of such events as the abduction and murder of his cousin by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

By Martin Amis

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9780786866526 | Miramax, June 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author traces his life and career, examining his relationship with his father, comic novelist Kingsley Amis, and the changing literary scene in Great Britain and the United States.

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9780375726835 | Vintage Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The author traces his life and career, examining his relationship with his father, comic novelist Kingsley Amis, the changing literary scene in Great Britain and the U.

Dinero

Product Description: Magistral y divertida novela que creo un personaje antologico, John Self, y recrea como ninguna otra dos ciudades del fin de siglo pasado: Londres y Nueva York. El inefable antihÃ©roe, John Self, es hombre de numerosas adicciones que consume en cantidades industriales, el dinero la principal de ellas, unica forma de cultura que conoce...read more

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9788433920492 | Editorial Anagrama, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.90 | About this edition: Magistral y divertida novela que creo un personaje antologico, John Self, y recrea como ninguna otra dos ciudades del fin de siglo pasado: Londres y Nueva York.

The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000

Compiles essays discussing, and in some cases condemning, such people and topics as movie violence, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Dickens, Michael Crichton, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, poker, and world literature. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780786866748 | Miramax, November 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Compiles essays discussing, and in some cases condemning, such people and topics as movie violence, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Dickens, Michael Crichton, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, poker, and world literature.

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9780375727160, titled "The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Compiles essays discussing, and in some cases condemning, such people and topics as movie violence, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Dickens, Michael Crichton, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, poker, and world literature.

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

The sequel to the author's acclaimed memoir Experience describes the role of communism in mid-twentieth-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on the Soviet Union, and his legacy. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

By Martin Amis

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9780786868766 | Miramax, July 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author describes the role of communism in mid-twentieth-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on the Soviet Union, and his legacy.

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9781400032204 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The sequel to the author's acclaimed memoir Experience describes the role of communism in mid-twentieth-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on the Soviet Union, and his legacy.

Vintage Amis

Furnishing a thoughtful introduction to the work of acclaimed author Martin Amis, this entertaining anthology features an excerpt from his memoir Experience, the 'Horrorday' chapter from London Fields, the stories 'State of England' and 'Insight at Flam Lake,' and such essays as 'Visiting Mrs. Nabokov' and 'Phantom of the Opera,' among others. Original. 25,000 first printing.

By Martin Amis

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9781400033997 | Vintage Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Furnishing a thoughtful introduction to the work of acclaimed author Martin Amis, this entertaining anthology features an excerpt from his memoir Experience, the 'Horrorday' chapter from London Fields, the stories 'State of England' and 'Insight at Flam Lake,' and such essays as 'Visiting Mrs.

Rachel Papers

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.

By Martin Amis

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9780099466697, titled "The Rachel Papers" | New edition (Vintage Uk, August 5, 2004), cover price $9.85 | About this edition: Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty.

9780679734581, titled "The Rachel Papers" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: On the eve of his twentieth birthday, Charles Highway reviews his campaign to win over a self-assured girl named Rachel

The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

Martin Amis has approached America from many arresting angles and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. This book includes a gallery of Great American Novelists Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, and many more.

By Martin Amis

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9780099461869 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 5, 2006), cover price $15.90 | About this edition: Martin Amis has approached America from many arresting angles and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit.

9780140127195, titled "The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America" | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1987), cover price $14.00

House of Meetings

The conflict and rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from the turmoil of 1946 Moscow to Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a profound and haunting influence on three characters. By the author of Money and Yellow Dog. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By Martin Amis

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9781400044559 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 2, 2007, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from 1946 Moscow to a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a haunting influence on three characters.

9780224076098 | Vintage Uk, September 18, 2006, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: Tells the story of a triangular romance: two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old Jewess, in Moscow, which is poised for pogrom in the gap between the war and the death of Stalin.

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9781400096015 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 8, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The conflict and rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from the turmoil of 1946 Moscow to Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a profound and haunting influence on three characters.

The Second Plane: September 11 : Terror and Boredom

Product Description: A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time...read more

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9781400044542 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time.

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