num_pages: 386
description: Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels.The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others. Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been recorded by such an inimitable talent. Profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest, Experience is a literary event.
language: English
title: Experience: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Experience: A Memoir
characters: Christopher Hitchens, Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis
genres: Literary Fiction, Biography, English Literature, Autobiography, British Literature, 21st Century, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature, Memoir
ratings_count: 3838
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography
publisher: Talk Miramax Books - Hyperion