num_pages: 528
description: Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the preeminent novelist-critic of his generation. Always entertaining, with a razor-sharp wit and inimitable judgment, he expounds on a dazzling range of topics from chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, to Andy Warhol, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Margaret Thatcher. The very best of his essays and reviews from the past twenty-five years are brought together in this substantial and wide-ranging collection, including pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, Malcolm Lowry, Nabokov, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Shiva and V.S. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton,V.S. Pritchett and John Updike.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
titlecomplete: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
characters: Gore Vidal, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Nicholson Baker, Bryan Appleyard, William S. Burroughs, Andrei Bely, Paul Newman, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, Jerry Falwell Sr., Dolores “Lolita” Haze, Humbert Humbert, Yasser Arafat, Elvis Presley, Gustave Flaubert, Saul Bellow, Lydia Bennet, Truman Capote, William Cooper, Ezra Pound, Thomas Harris, Ronald Reagan, Michael Crichton, V.S. Pritchett, A.N. Wilson, Nancy Mitford, Jack Ruby, Bill Clinton, Thomas Mann, Norman Mailer, Anthony Powell, Abraham Lincoln, John Betjeman, Christopher Hitchens, Oliver Stone, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Jack Henry Abbott, Gerty MacDowell, Beryl Bainbridge, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Carter, John Berger, George H.W. Bush, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Harold Acton, Hugh Auchincloss, James Atlas, Howard Austen, Cyril Connolly, Al Gore, Thomas Bernhard, Henry James, Chinua Achebe, George Orwell, George S. Kaufman, Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Marcel Proust, Robert Graves, Hermann Hesse, Leir of Britain, Brian Aldiss, Samuel Beckett, Leopold Bloom, Steven Spielberg, Stewart Alsop, Angus Wilson, A. Alvarez, Nancy Reagan, Lee Harvey Oswald, Iris Murdoch, P.G. Wodehouse, Rush Limbaugh, Greta Garbo (The Prince of Beverly Hills), Philip Larkin, Anthony Burgess, Malcolm Allison, William Empson, David Irving, C.P. Snow, Kurt Vonnegut, John Carey, James Joyce, Christopher Isherwood, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Berger, Dmitri Nabokov, Malcolm Lowry, James Baldwin, J.G. Ballard, Karl Barth, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ackroyd, John Donne, Max Beerbohm, Bobby Fischer, John Updike, Stephen Dedalus
genres: Writing, Books About Books, British Literature, Unfinished, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Criticism, Journalism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1532
places: Ladakh, Amarillo, Texas
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Vintage Canada