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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780679735731
ISBN: 0679735739
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 19, 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: March 19, 1996
Sales Rank: 62984
Studio: Vintage
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Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demise of Barry.
"With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities."--Houston Chronicle
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Years ago, when Amis was on a book tour for Experience I went to the reading with some of his books to sign, including a dog-earred copy of The Information. I'd read it forwards and backwards and backwards and forwards. It had been ripped to shreds by the press when it first came out. At the signing I had the hardback version of Experience but began to feel embarrassed about the condition of The Information. Just before it was my turn, I said to his minder, Do you think he will be annoyed with this? ... Read More
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...and he is on killer form doing it. Hauling out all the neuroses, anxieties, uncertainties and jealousies of middle age - the 'information', alluded to in the cosmic sense - the nagging feeling, always with us, that our time in the cosmos is brief and insignificant.
Amis finds a superb vessel to hold such themes - a high farce, low morality comedy of errors rivalry between two novelists. One, a hillarious failure, Richard Tull has fallen badly on mid life - an impoverished writer of huge, ... Read More
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In all my years of reading books this is the first time that I have felt compelled to destroy a book once I have read it to avoid inflicting the torment of its pages upon another family member or friend.
This is one of those book that at every page turn you expect the book to come alive and at the end you question why anyone would have spent so long on a piece of work in which nothing actually happens. Then you question your own sanity for persevering for so long.
I have never read ... Read More
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I'm sorry I ever started reading this book. The writing is so good that I couldn't stop -- but man . . .
Somewhat like the fictional author's fictional readers, my nose started to bleed and most of my goldfish died. You need to be really hard up for a book to read to knowingly choose this one.
After much cursing and gnashing of teeth, I finally finished it.
Somebody owes me money.
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Richard Tull is a failed intellectual novelist deep in the trenches of middle-aged disillusionment. His friend, Gwyn Barry, is a mediocre novelist rising in the marketplace. Richard has decided, that the only way to mitigate his pain is to f*ck Gwyn up.
Martin Amis has concocted a wickedly funny satire; it's a satire of capitalism in the 1990's, of the fakery of the artistic sphere and of narcissism.
The book is kind of pitiful at times, and Richards broodings become rather tedious, ... Read More
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