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🗓️ 27 September 2020
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Martin Amis
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0:47.3 | Hello there. When a new Martin Amos novel is published, it's always a literary event. His satirical provocation over the last 40 years has prompted equal measures of controversy and praise, |
0:53.3 | reliably pricking the bubble of liberal |
0:56.0 | sensibilities. In 1973 at 24, he published his debut, The Rachel Papers, which won him the |
1:03.0 | Somerset Mourne Award. His subsequent work included Times Arrow and Yellow Dog, both nominated for the Booker Prize, |
1:09.6 | and in his more recent novels, Lionel Asbo and the Zone of Interest, |
1:13.6 | he has addressed the state of various nations, as well as the nuclear threat, |
1:18.0 | Islamophobia, pornography, technology and sex. |
1:21.9 | He is perhaps most famed for his London trilogy, written in the 80s and 90s, |
1:27.0 | a group of novels which linger in the |
1:28.7 | minds of many readers for their uncompromising stylistic form and coruscating wit. From the |
1:35.2 | savagery of John's self in money to the literary warfare of the information and his |
1:40.3 | centrepiece London Fields, which holds a mirror up to society's malaise. |
1:45.5 | Here Amos is, reading from London Fields in a Radio 4 book club back in 2001. |
1:51.7 | Little did they know that the place they were about to burgle, the shop and the flat above it, |
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