“Superb memoir…a moving account of [Amis’s] coming of age as an artist and a man.” — San Francisco Chronicle The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores …

In Experience, the celebrated novelist Martin Amis steps away from fiction to deliver a sharply observed memoir, weaving together the personal and the universal in his signature dazzling style.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Fus [ing] humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth” (New York Times), one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses …

Jun 12, 2001 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The …

“Superb memoir...a moving account of [Amis’s] coming of age as an artist and a man.” — San Francisco Chronicle The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores …

Jan 1, 2000 · Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis. Publication date 2000-01-01 Publisher Vintage Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language …

Sometimes memoirs by well-known writers are among the best things that they write. I didn’t choose Experience by Martin Amis, for example, but I think it’s one of his best books.

"We live in the age of mass loquacity," Martin Amis writes by way of introduction to Experience, thereby placing the reader in a curious bind. How to feel about a memoir by a writer who deplores our current enthusiasm for memoirs? Can such a public appeal for private life be convincing?

'Experience' shows Amis turning his prose on himself, and his family, particularly his father; yet the book isn't a conventional memoir. James Wood, in an insightful review, wrote of the book as `an escape from memoir...an escape into privacy.'

Jun 12, 2001 · private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. He explores his relationship with his beloved father, novelist Kingsley Amis, and examines the life …

"Experience is a portmanteau of personal history, ancestor worship and promiscuous opinionizing, and a pinata of literary gossip that Amis beats with a stick, causing many names to drop." - …