"The Old Devils" author: 1986

Usage examples of amis.

I was just sitting there, not stirring, not even breathing, like the pub's pet reptile, when who should sit down opposite me but that guy Martin Amis, the writer.

Fielding, of course, had heard of Martin Amis he hadn't read his stuff, but there'd recently been some cases of plagiarism, of text-theft, which had filtered down to the newspapers and magazines.

Wall Street Journal "Amis is a born comic novelist, in the tradition that ranges from Dickens to Waugh.

San Francisco Chronicle "Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.

Amis has reached such a level of superstardom that his author's bio can understate: 'Martin Amis lives in London.

Washington Times MARTIN Amis THE INFORMATION Martin Amis's books include Money, Dead Babies, The Rachel Papers, The Moronic Inferno, Einstein's Monsters, London Fields, Time's Arrow, and Visiting Mrs.

And above the gray band the hat's slopes were indented in direct answer to the cheekbones beneath and their famished angularity.

A squad of architects had been told to dream the dreams of the contemporary businessman, and to give that dream the weight of concrete and steel: economy of line, public space/private space, dynamism melding into hard-won repose.

As in a naive poem of sorrow and rejection, the gulls of the Gower Peninsula, their famished cries weakly audible, drift and turn above the bay.

New York To my father First Vintage International Edition, April 1991 Copyright © 1989 by Martin Amis All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

The famished desperation, the neck-ricking bolts and snaps, the coruscating saliva.

But all kinds of considerations including squeamishness, another kind of amour propre, and the thought of all the mess it would leave - combined, as always, to stay his hand.

To further this delicious calibration he slightly bent and parted his legs, urging himself forward half a famished millimetre.

It was true that you did see signs of uniformity (one nation), all the people wearing off-white smocks and pink, gymkhana-sized rosettes, like that family over there, four of them, in perfect-family formation, man and woman and boy and girl, each with the squeamish smile of the future .

It would be a relief to be done with Love: this famished sampling of erotic thought would never ease his hunger pains.