Kurzbeschreibung
Martin Amis ist der Sohn des Autors Kingsley Amis, der schon in den 50er Jahren mit "Lucky Jim" bekannt wurde. Sein Sohn ist jedoch ob seines provokanten Wesens mittlerweile ebenso bekannt. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Erinnerungen, voller Anekdoten und Porträts bekannter Schriftsteller, steht das Verhältnis zu seinem Vater, aber auch die Entwicklung der britischen und amerikanischen Literaturszene der letzten Jahre. '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
Beschreibung
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.
Klappentext
Vintage paperback edition of Amis's autobiography, in which he explores his relationship with his father and the murder of his cousin by Fred West, recounts a wealth of anecdotes, and provides portraits of fellow authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves. ""Experience" is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book... rich and sedimented prose that displays all of Amis's usual powers of simple paradox" "Guardian".
