Experience
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:17th Apr '25
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 17th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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- Paperback£12.99(9780099285823)
This is the great Martin Amis’s autobiography.
INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH
It is a writer’s self-portrait – both a candid memoir and intimate insight into the process of writing itself. As the son of a famous writer, the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin 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.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
'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
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: 9781529952681
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
416 pages