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The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

Amis, Martin
Lane, Anthony

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Letters & EssaysGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $20.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 30, 2027

ISBN10: 1250398983
ISBN13: 9781250398987
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Mar 30 2027
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields, presents a collection of essays on the moronic inferno, aka the United States of America.

A thrilling tour of late-twentieth-century America through the eyes of one of Britain's most canny and caustic cultural critics.

In The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis turns his razor-sharp intellect across the Atlantic, ensnaring the United States in a trap of its own contradictions. From the gaudy sanctimony of televangelists to the myth-making machinery of Hollywood, the literary titans of postwar fiction to the grinning facade of Reagan-era politics, Amis dissects American life with an outsider's clarity and a satirist's glee.

Collected from his essays and reportage throughout the 1980s, these pieces showcase Amis at his most observant, irreverent, and unnervingly on point. Reading them now, one can't help but wonder: what would he make of our own moment--of influencers, strongmen, mass delusion, and digital spectacle?

The Moronic Inferno is not just a portrait of a country--it's a dispatch from the front lines of a cultural condition that has only grown more surreal.

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