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Perhaps Martin Amis’s works do not grab me for the most part because it veers too far away from the humanism of, say, Saul Bellow—a writer Martin greatly admires and has written about extensively.

That night, I remember, I was engrossed, with maximum pleasure and concentration, in a pinball machine. Gripped though I was, I fell into line without hesitation when my brother approached.

She held together a family prone to alcoholism, anger and depression (including her own) in unconventional ways. With the consent of her third husband, she cared for Kingsley Amis, the husband who cheated on her and mistreated her, during his final years. Martin Amis’ Spanish brother tells us about his mother’s life, which surpasses the fiction written by the men of the clan

Novelist and screenwriter, Martin Amis passed away in Florida on Friday. He was 73. Amis was battling oesophagal cancer. Born to a famous novelist, Sir Kingsley ‘Lucky Jim’ Amis took in his father’s footsteps and wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), which won him Somers

Martin Amis, novelist. Born: 25 August 1949 in Oxford. Died: 19 May 2023 in Lake Worth, Florida, aged 73

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