Is there anything thatMartin Amiscan’t write about?In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes onJames JoyceandElvis Presley,Nabokovand English football,Jane AustenandPenthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches – not only of the pen but of the mind and the heart. InThe War Against Cliché, Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the past three decades.On every page Amis writes with jaw-dropping felicity, wit, and a subversive brilliance that sheds new light on everything he touches.