Martin Amis: Night Train
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 1998
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Night Train
(Crown)
Suicide is the solution to the mystery in Martin Amis' noir thriller with existentialist undercurrents.
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| 0:00.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:07.5 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:11.4 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:15.0 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello, and welcome to bookworm. |
| 0:20.5 | Today my guest is Martin Amos, |
| 0:22.7 | the author most recently of Night Train. |
| 0:25.5 | All of his work virtually, |
| 0:27.3 | all of it is available in paperback from vintage books. |
| 0:30.8 | Night Train is published by Harmony Books, |
| 0:34.3 | a division of Crown. |
| 0:36.0 | He's the author as well, in reverse order of the information, |
| 0:40.1 | Times Arrow, London Fields, and I guess seven other novels. Well, to begin with, I notice in the last |
| 0:47.9 | two books that there is a movement that is extraplanetary, that both in the information and in night train, |
| 1:02.2 | the adventures of the people on Earth are viewed from afar, that there's a kind of cosmological implication. |
| 1:13.4 | And I wanted to start from afar and ask you about that. |
| 1:19.6 | Well, it's true. |
| 1:22.9 | Saul Bello has said that as you get older, the beautiful fabric of reality |
| 1:28.3 | begins to look soiled and used |
| 1:31.8 | like a roller towel in a Mexican men's room. |
| 1:35.4 | I think beyond a certain age, |
| 1:39.0 | you start looking around, |
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