THE AMIS PAPERS.

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  • Author(s): Wolcott, James
  • Source:
    Vanity Fair. Jul2000, Vol. 42 Issue 7, p142. 8p. 3 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      EXPERIENCE (Book); AMIS, Martin, 1949-2023; MEMOIRS; ARTISTIC influence; AUTHORSHIP
    • Abstract:
      Details novelist Martin Amis' memoir `Experience.' Love for literature inherited from his father Kingsley Amis; Divorce with the mother of his two children; Ugly break with his literary agent; Expensive dental treatments undergone by the novelist; Death of his father in 1995; Bad-boy image of Amis' prose; Evaluation of the memoir as merely a self-pitying narration of the novelist's life.