Amis, Martin (Vol. 9) - Amis, Martin 1949–
Amis, Martin 1949–
An English comic novelist and critic, Amis is the son of the novelist Kingsley Amis. Dead Babies is his second novel. (See also CLC, Vol. 4, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 65-68.)
[Amis] displays in [The Rachel Papers] a gift for satirizing the mock-heroic by speaking directly to the reader in the voice of his own character.
This spunky little spoof may turn out to have cul-de-sacs at the end of some of its "verbal avenues," and it may have more than a touch of the vacuous nausea of post-adolescence. But it does have a certain "pimply lyricism," as Charles Highway would smirk—a lyricism that just might win Martin Amis a letter from that other classic latter-dayyouth, Holden Caulfield. (p. 26)
Susan Heath, in Saturday Review/World (copyright 1974 by Saturday Review/World, Inc.; reprinted with permission), June 1, 1974.
Mr Amis discloses...
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