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Other People
Martin Amis
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Description for Other People
Paperback. When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? This story unfolds a metaphysical thriller where jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times
Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong...
Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
161g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099769019
SKU
V9780099769019
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-24
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 Other People
For all its savagery - Other People is a funny book - an achievement light years ahead of his earlier novels
The Times
Powerful and electrifying... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho
J. G. Ballard
One of the most gifted novelists of his generation
Time
Amis is ... Read more
The Times
Powerful and electrifying... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho
J. G. Ballard
One of the most gifted novelists of his generation
Time
Amis is ... Read more