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Loading... Other People (original 1981; edition 1994)by Martin Amis
Work detailsOther People by Martin Amis (1981)
None. We see the world through the eyes of amnesiac young lady Mary in London, including the Other People, who are a Mystery as she tries to learn to live an adult urban life from scratch. This allows the author to show us a refreshingly honest view of the world, in particular 1980s London, stripped bare of its social conditioning. As you might expect with Amis, the book is peopled with comically unpleasant charctersfrom all ranks of society. Mary's innocence and misunderstanding of idioms and turns of phrase provide the author with a rich linguistic source to supplement his useful high quality of interesting writing. (  ) rrmmff2000 | Feb 2, 2013 |  I am amazed at how many people--here and elsewhere--review this book without, apparently, paying much mind to its title. To call it a tour de force is merely to do it justice. This is one of the finest examples in recent times of what "fantastic fiction" should be like. owlcroft | Jan 24, 2011 | Quite disappointingly squanders an interesting premise with a story that really goes nowhere. It is deeply unsatisfactory to me (as it was to Aristotle who made the same remark on dramatic plots that get magically solved by the intervention of a deus ex machina) to read a self described mystery story where there is no engaging or recognizably intelligent set up and solution of the mystery. I think I am done with Martin Amis. (  )1  stefano | Jun 25, 2008 | I've never read a book like this before. I loved the narrative style - inside the mind of the innocent amnesiac Mary, and that of the omnipresent narrator. It was witty and intense, and darkly-humourous. (  )1 rockdg9 | Aug 16, 2007 |
"an ingenious and mischievous piece of writing, nothing like a mystery with a tidy ending...a tour de force." "Amis has done something important in 'Other People.'" "Other People is 'about' a descent into Hell, Hell being 'other people'-- it's a very strange and impressive performance." "For all its savagery... Other People is a funny book... an achievement light years ahead of his earlier novels."
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679735895, Paperback)She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her.In this eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes disorienting novel, Martin Amis gives us a mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self. (retrieved from Amazon Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:58:19 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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