Experience
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:17th Apr '25
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£12.99(9780099285823)
‘Before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while....'
INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH
In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish — from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis.
**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 130mm x 26mm
Weight: 302g
432 pages