"Amis is a born comic novelist in the tradition that ranges from Dickens to Waugh.... [His] mercurial style...can rise to Joycean brilliance"
–Newsweek "Sparkling might not be the first adjective that springs to mind to describe a novel packed with the concentrated disgust which
Dead Babies contains. Nevertheless, Martin Amis's version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is so fizzing with style, so busy with verbal inventiveness, that the adjective is impelled upon one."
–Julian Barnes, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending
