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"'EXPERIENCE", a memoir by the English writer, Martin Amis, portrays his famous novelist father, Kingsley Amis, with all the fears and foibles that the latter's life contained.
Taking his cue from his father's words on divorcing his second wife,"Well, it's all experience,..pity ther had to be so much of it", Martin Amis discloses details about his own life, including his own divorce, leaving two small sons the way his father left him and his brother when they were half grown.
The memoir also includes the horrific death his first cousin, Lucy Partington met at the age of 21 by a famous serial killer in London in 1973.
This memoir makes fascinating reading you can enjoy withour having read the novels of either father or son."
, Resident Scholar
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""EXPERIENCE", a memoir by the English writer, Martin Amis, portrays his famous novelist father, Kingsley Amis, with all the foibles and fears that the latter's life contained.
Taking his cue from his father's words spoken after divorcing his second wife,"Well, it's all experience,...pity there had to be so much of it.", Martin Amis discloses details about his own life, including his divorce, leaving two young sons, the way his father left him and his brother when they were half-grown.
The memoir also includes the horrific death his first cousin, Lucy Partington, met at the hands of a serial killer in London when she was twenty-one.
What is most telling in the book is the regard Martin Amis holds for the American writer, Saul Bellow. From Amis's accounts of his relationship with Bellow, the reader gleans that this writer is really the father Martin Amis acknowledges as his literary inspiration.
In "EXPERIENCE", Martin Amis relates the story of his and his father's lives in a manner that draws you in and arouses your empathy through to the end. "
Betty-Jeanne Korson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
job/profession:
- writer
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 (some)
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Century:
- 1980's-Present
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to torture
Book makes you feel?
- encouraged
- thoughtful
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
- somewhat unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
- 76%-100% of book
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