Experience
A Memoir
by Martin Amis
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9780375726835,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
2001
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9780786866526,
Hardcover,
Hyperion Books,
2000
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Publisher Notes
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.
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"EXPERIENCE is a portmanteau of personal history, ancestor worship and promiscuous opinionizing, and a piņata of literary gossip that Amis beats with a stick, causing many names to drop....And if we stay put till the last 100 pages, it will break our heart. But meanwhile we go far too often to the dentist."
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