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Martin Amis
Standard Name: Amis, Martin
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Diana Athill | Nicholas Lezard
wrote in the Guardian that this book teaches, in every line[,] the consolations of age, the common, shareable tone of experience. Athill begins the book, in fact, with her own old age, and... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | She took four years to write this novel, working with a new agent, A. D. Peters
. Having before this written fast and easily, she now reduced her speed to a crawl, with constant rewriting... |
Textual Features | Deborah Moggach | She offers a light-hearted explanation here for the gendered characteristics of women which, she believes, make them on average better writers and readers of fiction than men: they care more for gossip about the lives... |
Reception | Anita Brookner | This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson
, centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist... |
Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Reception | A. S. Byatt | David Jays
, in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB
, Zadie Smith
, A. L. Kennedy
, Sarah Waters
... |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG
worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press
at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at... |
Literary responses | Zadie Smith | On the basis of this novel, The Times hailed ZS
as canonical, one of a handful of contemporary novelists who really matter and who, we may confidently assume, will last. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Ruth Scurr
in the Telegraph judged EJH
to be as impressive a writer as ever in this novel, and instanced her handling of dialogue among children. Scurr, Ruth. “All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, review”. The Telegraph. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
's stepson and fellow novelist Martin Amis
has written that Howard (with Iris Murdoch
) was the most interesting woman writer of her generation. Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape. 215 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 38 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Before beginning this novel she asked the advice of her stepson Martin Amis
to help her choose between this and a present-day version of Austen
's Sense and Sensibility. He opted unhesitatingly for the... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Rendell | There RR
lent out estate cottages to avant-garde writers younger than herself, such as Martin Amis
, Julian Barnes
, and Jeanette Winterson
, to provide them with a place to write. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 627 |
Friends, Associates | Zadie Smith | Through a Cambridge friend ZS
met (while she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, not a published writer) Ian McEwan
and Martin Amis
. It was at McEwan's wedding celebration, a party full of people from my... |
Timeline
By 20 September 1953: Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie...
Writing climate item
By 20 September 1953
Saul Bellow
published The Adventures of Augie March. Martin Amis
, in later hailing this as the first American novel to show an immigrant as a rightful Discoverer, or a pioneer,
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2008
Spring 1983: Granta magazine's first listing of twenty...
Writing climate item
Spring 1983
Granta magazine's first listing of twenty Best of Young British Novelists included the names of six women: Pat Barker
, Ursula Bentley
, Buchi Emecheta
, Maggie Gee
, Lisa St Auban de Teran
, and Rose Tremain
.
By 5 October 1984: Martin Amis published a virtuoso, highly...
Writing climate item
By 5 October 1984
Martin Amis
published a virtuoso, highly self-referential novel entitled Money: A Suicide Note.
Texts
Amis, Martin. Experience. Jonathan Cape, 2000.