- Fiction, short stories (single author), Short stories, Large type books, English Short stories
A collection of stories by a British novelist. The story, Let Me Count the Times, is on a husband's efforts to improve his sex life, The Janitor on Mars is science fiction, and in The Coincidence of the Arts a painter cuckolds a writer.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Martin Amis
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 232
- Publisher
- Brand: Vintage Books, Vintage Books USA, Gallimard
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781446401866
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Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels *Money* (1984) and *London Fields* (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir *Experience* and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for *Time's Arrow* and longlisted in 2003 for *Yellow Dog).* Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, *The Times* named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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