God's Dice
by Martin Amis
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God's Dice (Penguin 60s) by Martin Amis (1995)Tags
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I spent twenty minutes on this review and it disappeared. Fuck you, LibraryThing? Fuck you, the computer? Anyway, these two stories will stay with me and are a compelling emotional argument against nuclear proliferation, and Bujak and the puppy Jackajack are two sweet heroes. I still hate your politics, Martin Amis, but when you write like this, fuck you slightly less.
My introduction to the writing of Martin Amis. Thoroughly enjoyed this short book even though the stories were far from happy. I really struggled through the second story especially.
Two sombre stories from "Einstein's Monsters". One is about a middle-aged Pole living in Ladbroke Grove whose wife is murdered in their flat while he's away for the weekend. The second is a strange tale about a puppy and a human community in a post-apocalyptic world.
May 15, 2022Spanish
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Martin Amis, son of the novelist Kingsley Amis, was born August 25, 1949. His childhood was spent traveling with his famous father. From 1969 to 1971 he attended Exeter College at Oxford University. After graduating, he worked for the Times Literary Supplement and later as special writer for the Observer. Amis published his first novel, The Rachel show more Papers, in 1973, which received the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award in 1974. Other titles include Dead Babies (1976), Other People: A Mystery Story (1981); London Fields (1989), The Information (1995), and Night Train (1997). Martin Amis has been called the voice of his generation. His novels are controversial, often satiric and dark, concentrating on urban low life. His style has been compared to that of Graham Greene, Philip Larkin and Saul Bellow, among others. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- God's Dice
- Disambiguation notice
- This Penguin 60s work actually contains two stories:
God's dice
The little puppy that could
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