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Experience (Paperback)
Short Description for ExperienceA memoir of Martin Amis, which talks about his life and presents an intimate look at the process of writing. Exploring his relationship with his father, the great comic novelist, Kingsley Amis, it records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, along with anecdotes and pen portraits.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 05 April 2001
- Format: Paperback 401 pages
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- Categories: Autobiography: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099285823 ISBN 10: 0099285827
- Sales rank: 65,120
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Full description for Experience
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.
