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The Information
Martin Amis
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Description for The Information
paperback. How can one writer hurt another where it really counts? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival Gwyn Barry. Revenger's tragedy, comedy of errors, contemporary satire, The Information is an extraordinary novel of dark humour and piercing insight. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 336.
Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.
While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes, prestige and wealth abound, and from far below Tull can only watch, stewing in torment.
Until, that is, resentment turns to revenge. Consumed by the question of how one writer can really hurt another, Tull’s quest for an answer will unleash increasingly violent urges on both writers’ lives.
‘A funny, vicious portrait of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099526698
SKU
9780099526698
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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 The Information
A book of brilliant energies, a comedy of enraged passions. Amis's writing shares the grandeur of the big American writers
The Times
Any other writer would kill to reach this high style. Amis can stroll the heights at his leisure - the writing is on fire Martin Amis is an iconic figure. He cracks out memorable sentences like ... Read more
The Times
Any other writer would kill to reach this high style. Amis can stroll the heights at his leisure - the writing is on fire Martin Amis is an iconic figure. He cracks out memorable sentences like ... Read more