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Other People

Martin Amis

In this eerie and sometimes disorienting dark comedy, Amis gives us a mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Feb 8th, 1994
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.21in - 0.63in - 0.54lb
  • EAN: 9780679735892
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels--among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, and Night Train--along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.

Praise for this book

"Powerful and electrifying.... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho." --J. G. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun

"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation." --Time

"Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him." --Washington Post Book World