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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
"[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache.... Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers." --The New York Times
Here, Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. Above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches--not only of the pen, but of the mind and the heart.
He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the past three decades. On every page Amis writes with jaw-dropping felicity, wit, and a subversive brilliance that sheds new light on everything he touches.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Jul 16th, 2002
- Pages: 528
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 1.20in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9780375727160
- Categories: • Essays• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Books & Reading
About the Author
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What people are saying
Statistician,visualizer,artist, professor. Founded Graphics Press, Hogpen Hill Farms, ET Modern Gallery
Martin Amis wrote a wonderful essay, “The War against Cliche,” used as a warm-up to help my tone, writing, cognitive style turn sharp, fresh, passionate. Essay has surely escaped to the web, so read it (The Guardian had superb collection obit for MA. NYT obit awful) https://t.co/2sysBLV6Fp
Martin Amis was my favorite writer. Is my favorite. Favorite of favorites. The Information, The Rachel Papers, The War Against Cliche. Hilarious brilliance, I can’t recommend them enough!
Mktg Director @UChicagoPress, editor of The Daily Sherlock Holmes & The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany. Board member @uplcchicago. He/Him.
RIP. Amis’s nonfiction is quote good; The War Against Cliche is an amazing collection. Now I’ll never get to ask him about my half-theory (prompted by a stray line -I have forgotten- near the end of the novel) that The Rachel Papers is secretly written by Rachel. https://t.co/lK76dhiJWw
Praise for this book
"Brilliant prose. . . .[Amis] proselytizes for talent by demonstrating it, by doing it. . . . He is a master." -The New York Times Book Review
"Whatever the book, there is no one whose review of it you'd rather read than Amis's. His prose is always buzzing, so much so that he doesn't just review books, he rewrites them." --San Francisco Chronicle
"[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache. . . . Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers mature." --The New York Times
What people are saying
Statistician,visualizer,artist, professor. Founded Graphics Press, Hogpen Hill Farms, ET Modern Gallery
Martin Amis wrote a wonderful essay, “The War against Cliche,” used as a warm-up to help my tone, writing, cognitive style turn sharp, fresh, passionate. Essay has surely escaped to the web, so read it (The Guardian had superb collection obit for MA. NYT obit awful) https://t.co/2sysBLV6Fp