Folio: Train de Nuit (Series #A41734) (Paperback)

from Voracious_Reader

Nihilism tastes bad to me, and love's topping doesn't make it any sweeter. SPOILER ALERT!!!! Martin Amis' Night Train tracks a heroine, a deep-voiced, incredibly sensitive, female cop, who works around mean, unhappy men. Amis' heroine speaks in first person as she unravels the mystery of the deat...

from dawnpen

The first time it doesn't happen you sigh and it's very hot and it feels wet. The next time it is a failure, but you have to find faith in that, in what you are doing. More than anything else, that there is will. There is will to do the thing you are doing. Period. Then there is of course, a peri...

from nbsp

Amazing book. One of those that makes you really look at people and wonder and, at times, avoid their eyes completely. It may be a temporary effect but it's powerful. I loved Amis' The Information for its clever language and plot. But I'm appreciating his range now. Night Train appears to be mere...

from larryking1

One time I met British novelist Margaret Drabble and when I made mention of her fellow scribe Martin Amis, she bristled! I had said the wrong thing! Furthur research into Mr Amis revealed that this enfant terrible of British letters (he has up to now written 14 novels) has always been somewhat of...

from Voracious_Reader

Nihilism tastes bad to me, and love's topping doesn't make it any sweeter. SPOILER ALERT!!!! Martin Amis' Night Train tracks a heroine, a deep-voiced, incredibly sensitive, female cop, who works around mean, unhappy men. Amis' heroine speaks in first person as she unravels the mystery of the deat...