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The Moronic Inferno

And Other Visits to America

Martin Amis

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English
Vintage
01 March 2006
A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Lionel Asbo.

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit.

Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Amis also takes us to Dallas, where presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is attempting to liaise with born-again Christians. We glimpse the beau monde of Palm Beach, where each couple tries to out-Gatsby the other, and examine the case of Claus von Bulow. Steven Spielberg gets a visit, as does Brian de Palma, whom Amis asks why his films make no sense, and Hugh Hefner's sybaritic fortress and sanitised image are penetrated.

There can be little that escapes the eye of Martin Amis when his curiosity leads him to a subject, and America has found in him a superlative chronicler.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9780099461869
ISBN 10:   0099461862
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. His most recent novel, Yellow Dog, was published by Cape in 2003.

Reviews for The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

Martin Amis's America is funny and horrific * The Times * Perceptive, witty and felicitously written... A terrific book -- Frank Kermode * London Review of Books * He writes brilliantly on novels and novelists. He has a laser-keen eye and an enviable descriptive power, using words with great originality and precision * Sunday Telegraph * As a foreign journalist-cum-essayist on America, Mr Amis has no equal * The Economist *


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