Martin Amis
The Biography
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
21 June 2012
Summary
Martin Amis’s life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-War era, he has forged a groundbreaking manner of writing that owes nothing to the style of his father, nor indeed to anyone else. He relished and recorded the bizarre, turbulent atmosphere of Britain and the US during the 1970s and 80s, arguably the transformative period of the late 20th century. No other contemporary writer has proved so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780332291 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780332297 |
| Author: | Richard Bradford |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 21 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 396g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Constable |
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Critics Review
I found Bradford’s approach refreshing. Rare among literary academics he writes clearly, doesn’t show off and knows a lot about his subject. He presents a fascinating chronicle of the development of Amis’s brilliant ear for speech. He also brings out the full extent of the symbiosis between Amis and his best friend Philip Larkin: in a way Larkin invented Amis. –Craig Brown, author of The Lost Diaries
Nearly all critical biographies relate the work to the life insidiously, tendentiously, helplessly. Richard Bradford is different: he does it convincingly, and with vigor. The result is an original and stimulating book. –Martin Amis
This book, easily the best on Larkin yet to appear, is a masterful analysis of the weirdly fatalistic interweaving of his life and his writing. A great biography of a great artistic genius. Utterly magnificent. –Roger Lewis, author of Anthony Burgess: A Life
At his better moments Bradford rises to Amis’s stylistic level. –Humphrey Carpenter, author of J. R. R. Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh
Nearlyall critical biographies relate the work to the life insidiously, tendentiously, helplessly. Richard Bradford is different: he does it convincingly, and with vigor. The result is an original and stimulating book. –Martin Amis
Thisbook, easily the best on Larkin yet to appear, is a masterful analysis of the weirdly fatalistic interweaving of his life and his writing. A great biography of a great artistic genius. Utterly magnificent. –Roger Lewis, author of Anthony Burgess: A Life
About The Author
Richard Bradford
Born in Derbyshire in 1957, Richard Bradford was educated at the University of Wales and at Oxford. He has held academic posts in Oxford, Wales and Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently and Research Professor in English at the University of Ulster. He has published twenty books, including Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis (2001), First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin (2005) and The Life of A Long Distance Writer: The Authorised Biography of Alan Sillitoe.
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