War Against Cliché: Essays & Reviews 1971-2000
War Against Cliché: Essays & Reviews 1971-2000
Author: Amis, Martin
Quality: F - Fine
Condition Notes: small crease in right front corner dust jacket / minor stain on bottom pages edge
Genre: Humor
Format: Hardcover
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He also skewers myths about masculinity, with great skepticism and more than a dash of nose-thumbing humor. Unflinchingly, he lambastes the "supercharged banality" of Elvis, the monumentally self-absorption of Andy Warhol, and American squeamishness about movie violence. Evaluating the present participle, casting a cold eye on the Guinness Book of Records, and the sacrosanct image of Abraham Lincoln, Amis astutely surveys our cultural landscape and fluctuates between celebration and castigation, with the precision of a hypodermic.


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