Name: House of Meetings (in English)
Price: 29.01 USD
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Author: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780307386663

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Physical Book

Author

Martin Amis

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Vintage

Synopsis "House of Meetings (in English)"

Martin Amis was born in Oxford, England in 1949 and studied at the University of Oxford. The Amis childhood was spent in various places because his father, the writer Kingsley Amis, he taught at universities in Britain and the United States. After the divorce of his parents when he was twelve, attended numerous academic institutions but showed little interest in studies. However, after his stepmother, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, will begin in the works of Jane Austen, Amis decided to prepare to enter college and graduated from Oxford in 1971. Amis held various jobs in the publishing world before devoting himself entirely to writing. He worked as a book critic in the London Observer in 1971 and from 1972 to 1974 as publisher and director in charge of the section of fiction and poetry in the Times Literary Supplement. It then came to the New Statesman, where he was director of the literary section in the 27 years of age. In 1980 returned to the Observer as a special partner. Amis has published a series of novels, short stories, essays and film scripts that have given rise to its reputation as one of the most ingenious satirical writers of his time. His first novel, The Book of Rachel (1973), won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974 (an honor that his father had won with his first novel, Lucky Jim, 20 years earlier). Among his children are dead successive titles (1976), Exit (1978), Other people (1981), Money (1984), Monsters Einstein (1987), London Fields (1989), The arrow of time (1991), a play about the Nazi death camps that defies the conventional linear narrative, and The train of the night (1995). The witty, care and satirical style Amis often contrasts heavily with its concern for the problems of contemporary society relating to sex, drugs, gratuitous violence and horror nuclear and environmental. There are critics who see it as dark and unpleasant, while for others is the greatest comic genius from Charles Dickens.

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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) estudió en Oxford y debutó brillantemente como novelista con El libro de Rachel, galardonada en 1973 con el Premio Somerset Maugham, publicada en España (en 1985) por Anagrama. A lo largo de su trayectoria trabajó como guionista y varias de sus novelas fueron adaptadas para televisión. Es autor de relatos cortos, ensayos y novelas. Tiene dos libros de carácter autobiográfico: Experiencia y Koba el Temible. Su última obra fue Desde dentro.

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