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Experience
Martin Amis
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Description for Experience
paperback. Explores the author's relationship with his father. This title also reflects on the life and legacy of the author's 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 prolific serial murderers. Num Pages: 416 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 318.
'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
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
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.
Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099285823
SKU
9780099285823
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Ref
99-1
About Martin Amis
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Experience
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
... Read more
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
... Read more