Experience (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Amis
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1949-1999
- Setting: England and America
- Principal Characters: Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, Lucy, Julian Barnes, Pat Kavanaugh, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Janeway, Isabel Fonseca
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, 1980’s, England or English people, Fathers, 1990’s
- Locales: United States, England
From the start of his career—launched surprisingly early and with great success—Martin Amis has occupied a central position within his generation of English writers. He began as a tricky prose stylist, displaying in his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), all the smarty-boots flair of an exceedingly clever Oxford undergraduate, which in fact he was at the time. There was more than a touch of his father, Kingsley Amis, in the comic high jinks and linguistic virtuosity of this early work. (Fittingly, father and son both won the Somerset Maugham Award for their literary...
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