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Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis; Erroll McDonald is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; a carefully reasoned emotionally charged attack on the unthinkable folly of nuclear war - an elegant, funny, moving book”—Daily Telegraph“A phenomenal writer. He has style as quick and efficient as a flick-knife, and a gift for the grotesque that makes other people's nightmares look like Victorian watercolours”—Sunday TimesAn ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and'Einsteinian'destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young son of a'father of the nuclear age'; evolution takes a rebarbative turn in a Kafkaesque love story; and the history of the earth is frankly discussed by one who has witnessed it all.The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation:''Einstein's Monsters'refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,'writes Amis in his e

Who reads Einstein's Monsters?

Author

Martin Amis; Erroll McDonald

Publisher

Vintage International

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679729969

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.4 / 5 (732 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13