Experience
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Apr '01
Should be back in stock very soon
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- Paperback£9.99(9781529952681)
In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death.
'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death.
Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's most prolific serial murderers.
Remarkable. -- Laurence Coupe * Times Higher Education *
A scrupulous and candid writer * Guardian *
His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant * The Week *
Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting * Daily Telegraph *
On virtually every page there is a phrase that is blissfully funny and ingenious...never less than compelling * Mail on Sunday *
Three times in the reading of this book, the courage, compassion and simplicity of Amis's writing brought me to tears. As a portrait of sustaining love between a father and a son, Experience stands alone among the testaments * The Time *
ISBN: 9780099285823
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 28mm
Weight: 343g
432 pages