Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis (English) Paperback Book

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In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death.

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'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily TelegraphIn this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's most prolific serial murderers.**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

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Vintage paperback edition of Amis's autobiography, in which he explores his relationship with his father and the murder of his cousin by Fred West, recounts a wealth of anecdotes, and provides portraits of fellow authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves. "Experience is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book... rich and sedimented prose that displays all of Amis's usual powers of simple paradox" Guardian.

Author Biography

Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.

Review

Remarkable. -- Laurence Coupe * Times Higher Education *A scrupulous and candid writer * Guardian *His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant * 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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'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph

Kirkus UK Review

Martin Amis is one of the most widely written-about of contemporary novelists, admired and hated in almost equal measure, and therefore his own account of his relationship with his father and an often hostile media, the real story behind his expensive dentistry and the highly-publicised split with Julian Barnes, his reaction to the murder of his cousin Lucy Partington by Fred West and his first meeting with his daughter Delilah Seale at the age of nineteen make for fascinating reading. This is, however, not a conventional autobiography, but a series of intricately-layered stream of consciousness memories of the experiences which have shaped his life and writings. Though often clever, the narrative structure with its innumerable digressions and footnotes can be confusing, and conceals Amis's lack of candour about such subjects as his marriages and why he apparently showed no interest in a daughter of whose existence he had known for years. The comments on his great literary influence Saul Bellow, on Philip Larkin and on contemporary writers such as Salman Rushdie are always stimulating but never fully developed, and really the best and most honest parts are about his relationship with his father Kingsley Amis, and his last days. Indeed, it is Kingsley Amis rather than his arrogant, pompous and chippy son who is the hero of this book. This is not the 'ruthlessly honest' memoir of the blurb exploring 'the geography of the writer's mind', but another exercise in fiction, one where Amis's attributes as a novelist - the command of language, the toying with ideas, the artifice - are on full display. Review by Andrew Lownie (Kirkus UK)

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Remarkable.

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Remarkable.

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'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience , the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph

Details ISBN0099285827 Author Martin Amis Year 2001 ISBN-10 0099285827 ISBN-13 9780099285823 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Illustrations portraits Birth 1949 Media Book Short Title EXPERIENCE Language English Residence London, ENK Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2001-04-05 Subtitle A Memoir UK Release Date 2001-04-05 AU Release Date 2001-04-05 NZ Release Date 2001-04-05 Pages 432 Audience General Alternative 9781446401453 We've got this

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