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    Amis, Martin - The Rub of Time Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 (Knopf, 2018)




    epub | 1.27 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B071NR4KYH | Author: Martin Amis | Year: 2017

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    From one of the world's greatest modern writers: collected here is s ome of Martin Amis's best nonfiction work from over two decades, ranging from politics and sports to celebrity, America, and literature.

    "Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels."- The Seattle Times

    As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics-politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course, literature.

    He writes about finally confronting the effects of aging on his athletic prowess. He revisits the worlds of Bellow and Nabokov, his "twin peaks," masters who have obsessed and inspired him. And he turns his piercingly observant eye on Donald Trump, whom he finds "scowling out from under an omelette of makeup" in the run-up to the 2016 Republican Convention, and at a post-election rally, regarding his crowd of supporters with a "flat sneer of Ozymandian hauteur."

    Overflowing with startling and singular turns of phrase, and complete with new commentary by the author, The Rub of Time is a vital addition to any bookshelf, and the perfect primer for readers discovering Amis's fierce talents for the first time.
    Category:Politics Literary Criticism, Political Literature Criticism, Books & Reading Literary Criticism

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    Amis, Martin - The Second Plane (Knopf, 2008)




    epub | 284.73 KB | English | ASIN:‎ B0013TX9EQ | Author: Martin Amis | Year: 2008

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    A modern classic from one of the most gifted writers of his generation : this collection of essays about 9/11 constitutes a provocative and insightful examination of one of the most momentous events of our time.

    "A walking tour of the motley post-September 11th mind - its fears, madnesses, misapprehension and insights." - New York Observer

    At the heart of this collection is the long essay "Terror and Boredom," an unsparing analysis of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's flummoxed response to it, while other pieces address the invasion of Iraq, the realities of Iran, and Tony Blair's lingering departure from Downing Street (and also his trips to Washington and Iraq).

    Whether lambasted for his refusal to kowtow to Muslim pieties or hailed for his common sense, wide reading, and astute perspective, Amis is indisputably a great pleasure to read-informed, elegant, surprising-and this collection a resounding contemplation of the relentless, manifold dangers we live with in the twenty-first century.
    Category:Terrorism, 21st Century History of the U.S., Terrorism

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    Amis, Martin - The Zone of Interest (Knopf, 2014)




    epub | 2.25 MB | English | ASIN:978-0-385-35350-2 | Author: Martin Amis | Year: 2014

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    AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life - and love-among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz. • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

    "A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." - San Francisco Chronicle

    Martin Amis first tackled the Holocaust in 1991 with his bestselling novel Time's Arrow . He returns again to the Shoah with this astonishing portrayal of life in "the zone of interest," or "kat zet" - the Nazis' euphemism for Auschwitz. The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll, the crass, drunken camp commandant; Thomsen, nephew of Hitler's private secretary, in love with Doll's wife; and Szmul, one of the Jewish prisoners charged with disposing of the bodies. Through these three narrative threads, Amis summons a searing, profound, darkly funny portrait of the most infamous place in history.

    An epilogue by the author elucidates Amis's reasons and method for undertaking this extraordinary project.
    Category:Psychological Literary Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Contemporary Literary Fiction

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    Amis, Martin - Time's Arrow (Vintage, 2011)




    epub | 2.76 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B017WQP482 | Author: Martin Amis | Year: 1991

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    TINY creases in corner of book otherwise this book is in new condition.

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    Amis, Martin - Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions (Vintage, 2011)




    epub | 567.22 KB | English | ASIN:‎ 0679757937 | Author: Martin Amis | Year: 1993

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    A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." - People

    Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw.

    Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as:

    American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb."

    Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear."

    "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." -John Updike
    Category:Essays, Sociology, Literary Criticism

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    Amis, Martin - Yellow Dog (Vintage, 2014)




    epub | 2.68 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B00M60S7G6 | Author: Martin Amis | Year: 2003

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    A brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell novel about a family man who is attacked in a garden and suddenly becomes an anti-husband and anti-father, from "one of the greatest novelists of his generation" ( TIME )

    "Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." - The Wall Street Journal

    When "dream husband" Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head injury, and personality change. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the "yellow" journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews; and the porno tycoon, Cora Susan.

    Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela; his Chinese mistress, He Zhezun; his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed "intrusion" that rivets the world-because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of Yellow Dog .

    If, in the 21st century, the moral reality is changing, then the novel is changing too, whether it likes it or not. Yellow Dog is a model of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation.

    But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable. Patriarchy, and the entire edifice of masculinity; the enormous category-error of violence, arising between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanished dream (probably always an illusion, but now a clear delusion) that we can protect our future and our progeny.
    Category:Lawyers & Criminals Humor, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction, Historical Literary Fiction

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    Applebaum, Anne - Gulag A History (Anchor, 2004)




    epub | 6.72 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B0012SCJ9Y | Author: Anne Applebaum | Year: 2007

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    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.

    "A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be." - The New York Times

    The Gulag-a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners-was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.
    Category:Communism & Socialism, History of Russia eBooks, 20th Century World History

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    Applebaum, Anne - Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe (Doubleday, 2012)




    epub | 10.99 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B007WKE3GS | Author: Anne Applebaum | Year: 2012

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    In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.

    At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain .
    Category:Communism & Socialism, History of Russia eBooks, 20th Century World History

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    Applebaum, Anne - From a Polish Country House Kitchen (Chronicle, 2012)




    epub | 34.97 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B00A6BDXFW | Author: Anne Applebaum | Year: 2012

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    The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores Poland's vibrant and modern culinary life in this beautifully photographed cookbook with 90+ recipes.

    For too many people, the term "Polish cooking" conjures to mind heavy, greasy, flavorless food. But historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, who has lived in the country since before the fall of Communism, knows better. With recipes inspired by her home in the Polish countryside, Anne sets the record straight about this fresh and delightful cuisine.

    From a Polish Country House Kitchen offers a tantalizing look at Poland's cultural heritage, turbulent history, and culinary rejuvenation. With recipes including Caviar and Blini, Steak Tartare, Zupa Gryzbowa, Trout with Lemon Cream Sauce, as well as pierogis, pancakes, latkes, and desserts, Anne shares the sustaining foods of her Polish country home with home cooks the world over.
    Category:Polish Cooking, Food & Wine, Comfort Food Cooking

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    Applebaum, Anne - Should the West Engage Putin's Russia (Anansi, 2015)




    epub | 1.07 MB | English | ASIN:‎ B017V74C8K | Author: Stephen F. Cohen | Year: 2015

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    How should the West deal with Putin's Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia. Others argue that such a policy is a dead end. Putin's Russia has legitimate grievances against Western and NATO powers meddling in its sphere of influence. Instead of further antagonizing Putin and risking a dangerous escalation of the current conflict, the U.S. and Europe should seek common cause with Russia to address shared threats, from the Middle East to Asia to combatting terrorism.
    In the fifteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, acclaimed academic Stephen F. Cohen and veteran journalist and bestselling author Vladimir Poznar square off against internationally renowned expert on Russian history Anne Applebaum and Russian-born political dissident Garry Kasparov to debate the future of the West's relationship with Russia.
    Category:International Diplomacy, Canadian Politics, Russian & Soviet Politics

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