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Description for House Of Meetings
Paperback. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. This title is about one such liaison. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary Review
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099488682
SKU
KAC0001783
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his ... Read more
Reviews for House Of Meetings
This novella is the best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years: very complex, very forceful, startling in the amount of ground it covers, and densely and intelligently put together
Literary Review
An ambitious feat...the result is brilliant
Independent
It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force... Amis has ... Read more
Literary Review
An ambitious feat...the result is brilliant
Independent
It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force... Amis has ... Read more