Koba the Dread (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Amis
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Biography and history
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Russia and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Christopher Hitchens, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Dictators, Politics, Socialism, Twentieth century, England or English people, Victims, Violence, Death or dying, Politicians, Totalitarianism, Soviet Union or Soviets, Great Britain, Heads of state, Mass murderers or serial killers, Labor camps
- Locales: Russia, Great Britain
Martin Amis is one of England’s premier writers. The son of the acclaimed novelist Kingsley Amis, he has received numerous prizes and wide recognition for his novels beginning with The Rachel Papers (1973) and including Money (1984) and Time’s Arrow (1991). Among his nonfiction works is Experience (2000), an autobiography of growing up as the son of the often difficult and curmudgeonly Kingsley Amis. Koba the Dread is also a memoir, but it is something more.
Koba was a nickname applied to Joseph Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union from...
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