{"product_id":"the-moronic-inferno-9780224023856","title":"The Moronic Inferno","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields  Money and Yellow Dog.  At the age of ten  when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton  New Jersey  he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles  and interviewed its literati  filmmakers  thinkers  opinion-makers  leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit.  Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer  Gore Vidal  Truman Capote  Joseph Heller  William Burroughs  Kurt Vonnegut  John Updike  Paul Theroux  Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Amis also takes us to Dallas  where presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is attempting to liaise with born-again Christians. We glimpse the beau monde of Palm Beach  where each couple tries to out-Gatsby the other  and examine the case of Claus von Bulow. Steven Spielberg gets a visit  as does Brian de Palma  whom Amis asks why his films make no sense  and Hugh Hefners sybaritic fortress and sanitized image are penetrated.  There can be little that escapes the eye of Martin Amis when his curiosity leads him to a subject  and America has found in him a superlative chronicler.  From the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273998393397,"sku":"ByrdShop_0224023853","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780224023856.jpg?v=1780492827","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-moronic-inferno-9780224023856","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}