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Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of hisgeneration. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brilliantinstrument dazzling readers with its energy and wit. In this much anticipatedmemoir Amis writes with striking candour about his life and looks intimatelyat the process of writing itself.As the son of a famous writer the great comicnovelist Kingsley Amis Martin Amis explores his relationship with his fatherand writes about the various crises of Kingsleys life including the finalcrisis of his death. Amis also examines the case of his cousin LucyPartington who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed in 1994 fromthe back garden of Frederick West Britains most prolific serial killer.Inevitably too the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain andthe United States with many anecdotes and pen portraits. «
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