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Experience : a memoir

Gifted and innovative novelist Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'. The son of comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared in 1973 and was exhumed nearly twenty years later from the back garden of Britain's most prolific serial murderer. Inevitably, too, the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, including a wealth of anecdotes along with memorable pen-portraits of Bellow, Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, among others.--From publisher description.

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  • "Confession brouillone sans chronologie, mêlant correspondance, récits, textes et événements internationaux, rencontres et critiques. Mais c'est vivant, humoristique et c'est aussi un témoignage sur la vie littéraire en Grande-Bretagne. [SDM]."
  • "Gifted and innovative novelist Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'. The son of comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared in 1973 and was exhumed nearly twenty years later from the back garden of Britain's most prolific serial murderer. Inevitably, too, the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, including a wealth of anecdotes along with memorable pen-portraits of Bellow, Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, among others.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Memoirs of Martin Amis desribing his family, especially the influence his father had on his life."
  • "Autobiografisch relaas van de Britse schrijver (1949- ) over zijn vader Kingsley, zijn jeugd en zijn schrijversloopbaan."
  • "Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain?s most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis's portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others. Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been recorded by such an inimitable talent. Profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest, Experience is a literary event."
  • "Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others. Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been recorded by such an inimitable talent. Profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest, Experience is a literary event."@en
  • "A Memoir of novelist Martin Amis and his life, son of novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin explores his relationship with his father. Reflects on the disappearance of cousin Lucy Partington who disappears without a trace in 1973. Body found buried in garden of serial murderer Frederick West."@en

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@es
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść autobiograficzna angielska"@pl
  • "Biografia"
  • "Autobiographie"
  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"

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  • "Experience : a memoir"@en
  • "Experience : a memoir"
  • "EXPERIENCE"
  • "Experience"@en
  • "Experience"
  • "Experience : a memoir of Martin Amis"
  • "Experiencia"@es
  • "Experiencia"
  • "Expérience"
  • "Experience : [proofs]"
  • "Ervaring"
  • "Doświadczenie"@pl
  • "Esperienza"
  • "Esperienza"@it
  • "Experiència"@ca
  • "Experiència"
  • "Die Hauptsachen : Roman"
  • "Die Hauptsachen"

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