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Einstein's Monsters [Paperback]

Martin Amis (Author)
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Publication Date: 3 Jun 1999

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a 'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.

The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for now.'

(1998-12-17)

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New Ed edition (3 Jun 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099768917
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099768913
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.8 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 557,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours" (Sunday Times)

"Amis is first-rate; arguing inventing, demonstrating, parodying, being funny and shocking in the same breath" (Observer)

"Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book" (Daily Telegraph)

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'In five cataclysmic stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair' Daily Mail (2003-03-03)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected 20 July 2012
By Dr. Andrew Phillips
Format:Paperback
I read the blurb on the back of the book and various reviews that are available (not just on Amazon) and I expected a collection of short stories about nuclear weapons. I suppose I got that, but not at all in the style that I anticipated.

This book is an intellectual exercise rather than entertainment. The opening essay is the best part of the book, arguing why it makes no sense to develop and maintain a nuclear arsenal. After that I felt that things went down hill. There are five stories, and I found four of them a struggle to finish despite their short length. It's not that the stories are badly written but only one has any obvious relevance to nuclear weapons. It's not that the message went over my head and I understand that the stories are allegorical and not necessarily to be taken literally, but I found it all a bit too much work. The book isn't bad as such, it's just no fun to read.

If you're expecting typical apocalyptic fiction then forget this book, but if you want something to think about then this might be up your street. I hated it, but I think it's probably a good book if you like this sort of thing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Our world with all the benefits of nuclear war 30 Jan 2001
By gilroyg@gofree.indigo.ie
Format:Paperback
Einstein's Monsters is about the nuclear world. A collection of short stories that terrorize the mind and brutalize concepts of reality, it seeps paranoia. The fear is not of death itself, but the type of horrendous death only possible by nuclear war. Amis is a wordsmith and language is his strongest suit. The language here has all the coiled power of his subject matter, and it gropes towards solutions which can't exist, in short stories that are abortive, elliptical and unfulfilling. There are no words to describe the possibilities of a nuclear winter. Einstein's Monsters gets all this and more. Worth reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars good reading, excellent bargain 28 Jun 2009
By Andrew Stys
Format:Paperback
The book is brilliant, despite 20 years gap since it was originally published. If you have never read anything by Martin Amis, read this one. The purchase is an absolute bargain.
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