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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
- Henry Fielding
(1707 - 1754)
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ZIN Product Number: 10561066
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 Format: Hardcover, 406 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Talk/Miramax
ISBN: 0786866527
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
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Perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of his generation, Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candor about his life and, in the process, gives us a clear view of the 'geography of the writer's mind'.
The son of the great 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 crisis 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 nearly twenty years later from the back garden of Frederick West, Britain's most prolific serial murderers.
Inevitably, too, the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, including a wealth of anecdotes along with memorable pen-portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, among others.
The result is a remarkable work of autobiography -- profound, witty, and ruthlessly honest. As a writer's self-portrait, it is destined to become a classic of its kind.
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I Found It: A Treasure beyond Imagination--It'sAll Mine
-- A reviewer, a fan from Cleveland, Ohio, January 2, 2001
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As a portrait of sustaining love between a father and a son, Experience stands alone among the testaments. (could be a great headline)
—May 2000 —Marianne Wiggins
| |  | | | | Part One: Unawakened | | Introductory: My Missing | 3 | | Rank | 12 | | Women and Love — 1 | 22 | | Learning About Time | 39 | | Bus Stop: 1994 | 58 | | The Hands of Mike Szabatura | 76 | | Failures of Tolerance | 89 | | Him Who Is, Him Who Was! | 110 | | The City and the Village | 128 | | The Problem of Reentry | 152 | | Permanent Soul | 175 | | Existence Still Is the Job | 195 | | Women and Love — 2 | 214 | | Feasts of Friends | 234 | | Thinking with the Blood | 252 | | Part Two: The Main Events | | 1: Delilah Seale | 275 | | 2: One Little More Hug | 283 | | 3: The Magics | 356 | | Postscript: Poland, 1995 | 367 | | Appendix: The Biographer and the Fourth Estate | 372 | | Addendum: Letter to my Aunt | 383 | | Index | 387 |
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