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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.
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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 ...
The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis.The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that both characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. [1]
Success was widely praised upon publication.The Guardian observed that "Gregory and Terry double the narrative in a way that makes Martin Amis's Success like a kind of two-way mirror"; critic Norman Shrapnel praised the novel's "icy wit" and called the narrative approach "artfully appropriate...[it] builds up an air of profound unreliabiity—entirely fitting, since things are by no means what ...
The Zone of Interest is the fourteenth novel by the English author Martin Amis, published in 2014.Set in Auschwitz, it tells the story of a Nazi officer who has become enamoured of the camp commandant's wife.
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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."