{"product_id":"koba-the-dread-paperback-by-martin-amis","title":"Koba the Dread Paperback by Martin Amis","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2003-09-09)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e336\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780676975185\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e311.85\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.27 x 13.13 x 1.73\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eA brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, \u003cb\u003eKoba the Dread\u003c\/b\u003e is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, \u003cb\u003eExperience\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKoba the Dread \u003c\/b\u003ecaptures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author’s father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was a “Comintern dogsbody” (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, \u003cb\u003eThe Great Terror\u003c\/b\u003e, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s \u003cb\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/b\u003e in undermining the USSR. The present memoir explores these connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere “statistic.” \u003cb\u003eKoba the Dread\u003c\/b\u003e, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin’s aphorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eMartin Amis is the bestselling author of several books including \u003cb\u003eLondon Fields\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMoney\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Information\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eExperience\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe War Against Cliche\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46554485063841,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780676975185","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780676975185.jpg?v=1781770264","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/koba-the-dread-paperback-by-martin-amis","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}