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Kusisto, Laura (16 December 2010). "Brit to Brobo! Martin Amis Buys in Cobble Hill", The New York Observer. Leith, Sam (15 August 2014). "Why we love to hate Martin Amis". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. But Lucy had decided to take the bus; and there was no point in arguing with her about a thing like that.

Perhaps he really doesn't need to say more about his relationship with the women than he does in a revealing letter from 1971, writing about then (and longtime) girlfriend Alexandra "Gully" Wells: Martin Amis with Salman Rushdie at the British book awards at the London Hilton in 1995. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Talk as much or as little... I talked much. Only to him could I confess how terrible I felt, how physically terrible, bemused, subnormalised, stupefied from within, and always about to flinch or tremble from the effort of making my face look honest, kind, sane. Only to him could I talk about what I was doing to my children. Because he had done it to me. At certain times, for certain periods, David was able to persuade himself that Lucy was still alive - alive, but elsewhere. Naturally all the Partingtons attempted something of the kind. My mother, too, attempted it. I attempted it. Lucy was serious, resolute, artistic, musical and religious. Even when we were children, the message I always took away from Lucy was that she wasn't going to be deflected, she wasn't going to be deterred. Yet as the book describes Kingsley's last days in hospital, Amis knows how to dilute his tangs, and let a flatter, harder prose report the inevitable: "How hard it is to die. You have to chase it, panting." And finally, this bony epitaph, as Martin looks at his father's corpse: "It is 1995 and he has been there since 1949." What is so moving is the rightful selfishness of those dates: he does not write "since 1922", which would be Kingsley's birthdate, but "since 1949", which is his own - for his is the reality that now matters.You could go on for ever, I said, with this chain of ifs... As you drove into town, do you remember what you talked about? So that’s it: the full stop at the end of Inside Story, his novel from 2020, is the final full stop. It seemed as if that torrent of prose would continue forever; that he would keep on speaking to us, in the accents of intimate friendship, for the rest of our reading lives. Hi May it your Dad Writeing to you. or lette me have your telephone number... or Write to me as soon as you can, please may I have to sort out watt Mr Ogden did to me, my new solicitors are Brilliant I Read What you sead about me in News of the that was loylty you read what Scott canavan sead he had - When I first moved to Cape in 1993 it still seemed, 20 years on from The Rachel Papers, that every young writer wanted to be on the list because Martin was on it. The fact that he was so overlooked for literary prizes only added to his allure.

Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis at the 1995 British book awards. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images D'Ancona, Matthew (21 May 2023). "We need Martin Amis's writings more than ever". The New European . Retrieved 22 May 2023. No. But now, or at any other stage, I would give up my life so that Lucy could have hers. Because my life is... And hers... In an interview with the Paris Review, Amis said that “plots really matter only in thrillers”, and that Money was a “voice novel”. “If the voice doesn’t work you’re screwed,” he added. Amis leaves it up to us to remember that this is also how Ivan Ilych dies, in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych, from 1886: by turning on his side. But the literary allusion, the literary parallel, is, in Amis’s paragraphs, always there, enriching the prose, expanding the range of his, and our, perceptions. Amis once praised a novelist (it was Nicholson Baker) for writing prose beneath which “the engine-room of English Literature confidently thrums”. When writers praise, they often say the things that they would like to hear said about themselves. Amis’s prose, like John Self, gobbled up contemporary junk food. But its standards of nutrition were literary, first and always.

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Shaffi, Sarah (20 May 2023). "Martin Amis, era-defining British novelist, dies aged 73". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 May 2023. Then, of course, there is the adored Saul Bellow (whose own struggles with a near-fatal illness also shook Amis in the late 1990s). It has to be said, in the last decade or so, as he got increasingly involved in writing about 20th-century history, he hasn’t perhaps had the same acclaim as those of his generation like Salman Rushdie or Ian McEwan. Tom Chatfield (1 February 2010). "Martin Amis: The Prospect Interview", Prospect. Retrieved 20 March 2010. McGrath, Charles (22 April 2007). "The Amis Inheritance". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 May 2023.

God's Dice (1995: ISBN 9780146000546; two stories reprinted from Einstein's Monsters, part of the Penguin 60s series) [138] [35] Bilmes, Alex. Martin Amis: 'Women have got too much power for their own good', The Daily Telegraph, 2 February 2010. Nevertheless, it must be pointed out that he once again does nothing resembling setting any record straight.

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a b c d Clute, John (22 May 2023). "Amis, Martin". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: SFE Ltd and Reading: Ansible Editions . Retrieved 22 May 2023. Tredell, Nicolas (2017). Anatomy of Amis: a study of the work of Martin Amis. Paupers' Press. p.323. ISBN 978-0-9568663-9-4. Adams, Tim (31 January 2010). "Review: The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 May 2023. The Martin Amis Web". martinamisweb.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2023 . Retrieved 12 October 2010. As Amis explains in his essay "The Age of Horrorism" (reprinted in an amended form as "Terror and Boredom" in The Second Plane), he chose the US city of Greeley, Colorado, on account of its connection with Sayyid Qutb and the development of his jihadist convictions. [74]