- Fiction, short stories (single author), Nuclear weapons, Fiction, Nuclear warfare
‘In five cataclysmic short stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair’ Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Martin Amis
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Harmony Books, VINTAGE (RAND), Random House Group Limited
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782267006162
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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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