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Title Statement | Inside story: a novel / by Martin Amis. |
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Author | Amis, Martin |
Publication | ©2020New York: Alfred A. Knopf,[2020] |
Extent of Item | xxi, 538 pages |
ISBN | 0735281300 9780735281301 |
Other Number | 3893733 |
General Notes | "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. Includes index. Subtitle on half-title page: How to write. |
Summary | Martin Amis's dazzling autobiographical novel of a unique literary life seen through the lens of friendships, family, sex and love, is wise, warm, heartbreaking and funny: the heart-to-heart testimony of an incomparable writer. Martin Amis leads us through boisterous romantic entanglements and literary friendships, the encompassing ties of family to generously revealing details about how to write (from the master of prose style), and finally to the intimate sorrow of a death closely felt. Inside Story had its birth in a death--that of the author's closest friend, the beloved thinker and writer Christopher Hitchens. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic conquests and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books and where to lunch), Hitchens was Martin's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral, unforgettable Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Martin must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. We meet the literary giants who influenced him--his father Kingsley Amis, his hero Saul Bellow, the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin, and significant literary women, from Iris Murdoch to Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Martin's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to be a husband and father, how to grieve, and how to die? In his search for answers, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of 9/11 on the twenty-first, and considers what all this has taught him about how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life and to the people in his life, which is simultaneously a wonder of literary invention--wise, meditative, heartbreaking, funny, and as engaging as a novel--that achieves a new level of confidentiality with readers. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Authors, English--Biography--Fiction--21st century |
Authors, English--Biography--Fiction--20th century | |
By Name | Amis, Martin |
By Location | London (England)--Fiction--Intellectual life--20th century |
By Genre | Autobiographical fiction |