The Information

A book of brilliant energies, a comedy of enraged passions. Amis's writing shares the grandeur of the big American writers

The Times

Any other writer would kill to reach this high style. Amis can stroll the heights at his leisure - the writing is on fire

Martin Amis is an iconic figure. He cracks out memorable sentences like a ringmaster in the circus of the grotesque. He is the good-looking bad guy of late-twentieth-century Eng Lit - faster on the phrase than any of the other inky cowboys on the streets

Amis has made previous incursions into the grubby end of Ladbroke Grove and the infection of urban self-pity. But he's never been quite so funny about it

Independent

Young men adore Martin Amis and older ones envy him. Many imitate him. Many want to be him. He can be cool and raw, smart and cool. He's sexy, but that's not all. Now we want the Information

Observer

A funny, vicious portrait of literary London

Evening Standard

Mr. Amis is his generation's top literary dog...dazzling... You're never out of reach of a sparkly phrase, stiletto metaphor or drop-dead insight into the human condition...Mr. Amis goes where other humorists fear to tread... Look out, Flaubert! Look out, Joyce!

New York Times Book Review

This is Amis' best work to date...funny, angry, caustic and brilliant

The Montreal Gazette

Talent of a very high order...darkly funny...vastly sophisticated... A particularly ingenious masterpiece of comic plotting

The Toronto Star