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Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brilliant instrument, dazzling readers with its energy and wit. In this much anticipated memoir, Amis writes with striking candour about his life and looks intimately at the process of writing itself.As the son of a famous writer, the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis' explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final crisis of his death. Amis also examines the case of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed in 1994 from the back garden of Frederick West, Britain's most prolific serial killer. Inevitably, too, the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, with many anecdotes and pen portraits.
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Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.
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"Remarkable." -- Laurence Coupe * Times Higher Education * "A scrupulous and candid writer" * Guardian * "His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant" -- Arthur Smith * The Week * "Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting" * Daily Telegraph * "On virtually every page there is a phrase that is blissfully funny and ingenious...never less than compelling" * Mail on Sunday *
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2001
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