Other People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679735892)

"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME) gives us a metaphysical literary mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self.

She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human--and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her.

"Powerful and electrifying.... Other People is a metaphysical thriller, Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho." --J. G. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun

Author: Martin Amis
ISBN-10: 0679735895
ISBN-13: 9780679735892
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/08/1994
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/1994 pg. 172
Publishers Weekly 02/28/1994