The Information by Martin Amis lands on the shelves of my shop.
Flamingo, 1995, Hardback in dust wrapper.
From the cover: But he had other information to process, the kind that only comes when life is turning, the kind you have to be there to get, because no one will ever tell you about it. And if they did you d never listen.
There arent many ways for one writer to hurt another. Even if the literary world were as hopelessly corrupt as some people like to think it is, a writer cannot seriously damage a rival. This is the unwelcome conclusion reached by Richard Tull, failed novelist, when he contemplates the agonizing success of his best friend (and worst enemy) Gwyn Barry. A scathing review, a scurrilous profile? Such things might hurt Gwyn Barry, but they wouldnt hurt him. So Richard Tull is obliged to look elsewhere, to the weapons of the outside world seductions and succubi, hoaxes, mind games, frame-ups, sabotage -until at last Richard finds what he is looking for: a true professional someone who hurts people in exchange for cash.
In The Information Martin Amis returns to the big picture of Money and London Fields. The book takes in the whole of society, with the possible exception of the middle classes. . This leaves us with the very rich, the very desperate, and the very bohemian. Comedy, the author has said, is the only genre with any future: it is all thats left. So The Information is a comedy that goes where comedy shouldnt normally go, into the territories abandoned by romance, by satire and by tragedy.
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.
Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 494 pages. 8¾” x 5½”.
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