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Amis was born on 25 August 1949 at Radcliffe Maternity Hospital in Oxford, England. [8] His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; [4] his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, [9] was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.
Martin Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. British novelist Martin Amis, who brought ...
Author of ‘London Fields’ and ‘The Information’, who divided opinion over his writing style and personal views, died of oesophageal cancer at his home in Florida
Martin Amis, best known for a scathing, dazzling trilogy of novels on money-saturated '80s London and the memoir "Experience," died Friday at 73. Martin Amis, best known for a scathing, dazzling ...
Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis.It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology, with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel.
Several reviewers were baffled by the claim that it was a novel: "Martin Amis’s “Inside Story” contains so much autofiction, metafiction and just plain nonfiction (there’s an index) that one doesn’t know how to classify the book" [6] Others felt the novel was somewhat recycled, with several ideas and character types appearing in ...
Amis's first novel received mixed critical reception. [6] While he was praised by some critics for his "ruthlessly brilliant comedy", [7] he was also taken to task for failing to sufficiently animate any of the other characters besides Charles, making the book merely "an easy-reading, mildly funny series of bed-and-bathroom observations."
Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled ...