Name: Inside Story (in English)
Price: 12.60 USD
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Author: Amis, Martin
ISBN: 9780593311714

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martin Amis

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.0 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9780593311714

Synopsis "Inside Story (in English)"

From one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time, an autobiographical novel that's a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die "[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction...Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise." --The New York Times This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers--Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin--and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, he winds up surveying the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to live and how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life--and to the people in his life--that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.

Martin Amis

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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) estudió en Oxford y debutó brillantemente como novelista con El libro de Rachel, galardonada en 1973 con el Premio Somerset Maugham, publicada en España (en 1985) por Anagrama. A lo largo de su trayectoria trabajó como guionista y varias de sus novelas fueron adaptadas para televisión. Es autor de relatos cortos, ensayos y novelas. Tiene dos libros de carácter autobiográfico: Experiencia y Koba el Temible. Su última obra fue Desde dentro.

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