Einstein's Monsters ~ Martin Amis - First edition ~ Nuclear Weapons - Literature

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Author: Martin Amis Title: Einstein's Monsters Publisher: Harmony Place: New York Date: 1987 Binding: Hardcover Edition: First ed. Pages: 149 ISBN: 051756520X Condition: light shelfwear Book No: 477 Details: From the inside flap

Einstein's Monsters is Martin Amis's impassioned fictionalized protest against nuclear weapons. These powerfully imagined stories show individuals caught first in our world s slide toward nuclear war and later in the planets post-holocaust decline toward extinction. The subject is depressing, almost unthinkable. But Amis makes of these stories a life-affirming lament.

Tracing the direct link between the presence of nuclear weapons and the increasing violence and cynicism of our world, Amis issues a clear warning: Nuclear weapons leech our humanity from us, even before they are unleashed. "We are Einsteins monsters," he writes, "not fully human, not for now."

Each story presents a vivid, frightening world. "The Little Puppy That Could" is a bizarre evolutionary fable in which a village of mutants cowers in fear of a dragonlike canine. In "The Immortals" the whole of human history winds down to the deranged recollections of a single dying man. And the wealthy survive by securing lives of utter boredom in "The Time Disease. "

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