Book description
An 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 enlightening
introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not
for now.'
Martin Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir
Experience
, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most
recently
The Second Plane
. He lives in New York.
