Is there anything that Martin Amis can't write about? In this
virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis
Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse
Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is
concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches-not only of the
pen, but of the mind and the heart.
In The War Against Cliché*,* Amis serves up fresh assessments of the
classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. He
tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and
Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the
past three decades. On every page Amis writes with jaw-dropping
felicity, wit, and a subversive brilliance that sheds new light on
everything he touches.