Martin Amis Biography:
Martin Amis is an English novelist and son of Kingsley Amis.
His first novel The Rachel Papers, is about the adventures of a
bright, egotistical teenager (presumably not unlike Amis himself)
and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year
before going to University. It is the most traditional of his
novels, and still the favourite of some, though it has since
been made into a rather unsuccessful film.
Dead Babies, more flippant in tone, has a typically Sixties plot,
with a house full of characters who abuse various substances and
are eventually massacred by a psychopath. A number of Amis
characteristics show up here for the first time: mordant black
humour, obsession with the zeitgeist, authorial intervention, a
character subjected to sadistically humorous misfortunes and
humiliations, and a defiant casualness ("my attitude has been, I
don't know much about science, but I know what I like").
His most famous novels are Money , Time's Arrow and London
Fields. The unparalleled size of the advance demanded and
obtained by Amis for The Information attracted disapproval;
ironically, the main characters in The Information are rival
authors who are jealous of various aspects of each other's lives.
He has written a biography and memoir on his father called
Experience. ~ from Wikipedia
Dates:
(1949- )
(1949- )
Nationality:
English
English
Recent Work:
Yellow Dog, 2003
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Yellow Dog, 2003
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