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Book SynopsisMartin 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 readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
Trade ReviewExhilarating...hugely enjoyable...
Night Train, like everything Martin Amis has written, shines with disciplined linguistic exuberance in every syllable
Night Train is both delicate and bruising - a long drawn-out blue note. The book hangs around in the mind like smoke in a jazz club * Telegraph Magazine *
A virtuoso performance. Deliciously readable, highly polished... Mr Amis has created a quicksilver narrative that grabs the reader and refuses to let go * New York Times *
Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness * Time *
A work of dark romanticism, a tale of possession... prose crackling with wit and invention * New York Times Book Review *
