Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous collection, 'Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there. ' The essays in The Rub of Time range from superb critical pieces on Amis' heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliant The Rub of Time - Martin Amis od authora Martin Amis a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.