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The Rub of Time

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Rub of Time

By Martin Amis

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About the book

The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, perhaps inevitably, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016. One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump's rise to...Show more

Biography and non-fiction prose

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ISBN

9780099488729

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Published year

2018

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1

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The Rub of Time

Format

Paperback

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