Martin Amis

Experience (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Martin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known.

In Experience, the celebrated novelist Martin Amis steps away from fiction to deliver a sharply observed memoir, weaving together the personal and the universal in his signature dazzling style.

Through a mosaic of vivid memories, Amis reflects on his extraordinary life: his complex relationship with his father, the iconic author Kingsley Amis; the heavily publicized murder of his cousin Lucy Partington by a notorious serial killer; and the relentless absurdities of public life, from tabloid scandals to literary feuds. Alongside these moments of tragedy and humor, he offers tender vignettes on fatherhood, family, and the legacies we inherit.

Crackling with Amis's linguistic brilliance and wry humor, Experience reveals a writer both unflinchingly honest and profoundly human. Part elegy, part love letter, and part self-portrait, this memoir is a masterwork of reflection on life, loss, and the enduring power of family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250420053
• Artikelnr.: 72870119

Autorenporträt

Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.

Rezensionen

Remarkable. Laurence Coupe Times Higher Education