Other People
  • Published: 2 July 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099769019
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.00
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Other People

a Mystery Story

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1 Aug 2011
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2 Jul 1999
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A new reissue series of Martin Amis's novels to mark his 70th birthday

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times

Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong...

Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and for the rest of us an experience not to be missed.
  • Published: 2 July 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099769019
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.00
Categories:

About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. Amis died in May 2023.

portrait photo of Martin Amis

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Time's Arrow
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Praise for Other People

Amis is a force unto himself... There is, quite simply, no one else like him

Washington Post Book World

One of the most gifted novelists of his generation

Time

Powerful and electrifying... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho

J. G. Ballard

For all its savagery - Other People is a funny book - an achievement light years ahead of his earlier novels

The Times

Other People is "about" a descent into Hell, Hell being "other people" - it's a very strange and impressive performance

Observer