Other People

When she awakes and realizes she is all right - that Time is starting again - it seems fitting that she should be lying on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice has told her she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? The first hours are the strangest. She knows nothing and listens to ordinary people for clues, though oddly, they never quite say what they mean. (Even cliches sound sinister to the uninformed.) She begins to recognize the peculiar importance possessed by mouths, and she becomes keen to find out more about harm, luck and time. The world parts gingerly to let her in. 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 jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights.

ISBN 0099769018   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780099769019 (What's this?)   Pages 206 Publisher Vintage   Weight (grammes) 162 Imprint Vintage   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 03 Jun 1999   Width (mm) 131 Non-book description B   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General

"For all its savagery... Other People is a funny book... an achievement light years ahead of his earlier novels." -- "The Times" "Powerful and electrifying... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho." -- J. G. Ballard "One of the most gifted novelists of his generation." -- "Time" "Amis is a force unto himself... There is, quite simply, no one else like him." -- Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post Book World"

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