Amis, Martin Louis
Amis, Martin Louis ( 1949 – ),novelist and journalist, the son of Sir Kingsley Amis . Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he was an editorial assistant on the Times Literary Supplement 1972 – 5 , and later assistant editor; from 1977 to 1979 he was literary editor of the New Statesman . Stylistically flamboyant, his novels depict, often in disturbing and explicit detail, the violence and moral ambiguities of late 20th-cent. urban society. His first novel, The Rachel Papers ( 1973 ), is the story of Charles Highway , a sexually precocious teenager who plans the seduction of an older woman. Sex is treated both graphically and satirically in Dead Babies ( 1975 ). This was followed by Success ( 1978 ) and a metaphysical thriller, Other People ( 1981 ). Money ( 1984 ), subtitled A Suicide Note, centres on the aptly named John Self , a film...
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