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Title	:	The Information
Author	:	Martin Amis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 374 pages
Published	:	March 19th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Novels. Drama

The Information

Martin Amis

Paperback | Pages: 374 pages

Rating: 3.51 | 6618 Users | 294 Reviews

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Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is to plot the demise of Barry.

"With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities."—Houston Chronicle

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Original Title:	The Information
ISBN:	0679735739 (ISBN13: 9780679735731)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Richard Tull, Gwyn Barry, Gina Tull, Lady Demeter de Rougemount, Steve Cousins, Gal Aplanalp
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Whitbread Award Nominee for Novel (1995), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (1996)

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Ratings: 3.51 From 6618 Users | 294 Reviews

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Re-read for possibly the fourth time over ten years. I have yet to read a greater book about the literary mid-life crisis - although I appreciate that quantatively, that's rather a small genre. Also shows that Amis is much underrated as a humourist. On the downside, the book does have some basic realism problems when it comes to the success and fame enjoyed by its protagonist's bete noir. There were also bits of prosedy in there I recognised from the output of the author's dad.

The Information is a really good book that I can picture myself liking a lot better under different circumstances. Like, say, if it had been the first (Martin) Amis book I'd read.Amis does a good job describing a lot of the stuff that's arguably wrong with the sort of fiction that tends to become wildly successful these days. And, helpfully, he does an even better job of self-deprecatingly describing "real" "literary" fiction--the sort of fiction that strives to be difficult, the sort that

October 18, 2006Martin Amisc/oJonathan Cape LtdRandom House UK Ltd20 Vauxhall Bridge RoadLondon SW1V 2SAEnglandDear Mr. Amis,I had the pleasure of reading The Information this past August while living in a motel room in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh. Reading, and wandering the parking lot of Star City, an abandoned movie theater, were my sole diversions while waiting for a replacement windshield wiper to arrive at the local auto parts store. Your book was a sanity-saver

The first half of this was a slog. Things began to remind me of Ian McEwen's Saturday, which I loathed, and which also post-dates The Information, of course. Did McEwen borrow a bunch of ideas from The Information? Both books share low-class thugs bursting with violent impulses, games involving rackets played by friends/rivals, and end with a thug terrorizing the protagonist's family. Frankly this was a 1 or 2 star book for me, until we departed for the book tour in America. Maybe Amis should

He sat up. He gave a sudden nod. Then and there it crystalized: the task.He was going to fuck Gwyn up.The Information is the story of two writers: Richard Tull, a failed novelist and full-time book reviewer, and Gwyn Barry, a failed book reviewer who's written two very successful (and seriously schlocky) novels.On the eve of his fortieth birthday, with his life collapsing around him, Richard suddenly snaps. (As the narrator puts it, he's cracking up. He's losing his mind.) Enraged and envious,

This is now my favourite book! And there is no need to say more.

No stars as not completed. Head most definitely not in the right place for this at the moment. Exceptionally well written but (at times) tedious in the extreme and I found my own thoughts (on other matters) becoming equally tedious. (Possibly the mark of outstanding technique...?)Will make my return before the year is out....