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Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brilliant instrument, dazzling readers with its energy and wit. In this much anticipated memoir, Amis writes with striking candour about his life and looks intimately at the process of writing itself.As the son of a famous writer, the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis' explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final crisis of his death. Amis also examines the case of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed in 1994 from the back garden of Frederick West, Britain's most prolific serial killer. Inevitably, too, the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, with many anecdotes and pen portraits.

ISBN 0099285827   Pages 401 ISBN13 9780099285823 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 414 Publisher Vintage   Published in London Imprint Vintage   Height (mm) 199 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 132 Publication date 05 Apr 2001   Spine width (mm) 31 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

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