Name: Experience: A Memoir
SKU: 1613437
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Author: Amis, Martin
ISBN: 9780375726835

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martin Amis

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

406

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0375726837

ISBN13

9780375726835

Edition No.

Synopsis "Experience: A Memoir "

Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others. Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been recorded by such an inimitable talent. Profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest, Experience is a literary event.

Martin Amis

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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) studied at Oxford and made a brilliant debut as a novelist with The Rachel Papers, awarded in 1973 with the Somerset Maugham Award, published in Spain (in 1985) by Anagrama. Throughout his career, he worked as a screenwriter and several of his novels were adapted for television. He is the author of short stories, essays, and novels. He has two autobiographical books: Experience and Koba the Dread. His last work was Inside Story.

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