17. "Martin Amis," Contemporary Authors 27 (1989): 21. Shanti Padhi has called the scatological elements in Amis's novels of the seventies the "pranks of a young writer trying with utmost panache to outdo his rivals in porno-peddling." See "Bed and Bedlam: The Hard-Core Extravaganzas of Martin Amis," Literary Half-Yearly 23 (January 1982): 36.
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