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 a private life every bit as
unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels.
The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores
his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of
Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin,
Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain's most
notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing
literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salman
Rushdie, Allan Bloom, Philip Larkin, and Robert Graves, among others.
Not since Nabokov's Speak, Memory has such an implausible life been
recorded by such an inimitable talent. Profound, witty, and ruthlessly
honest, Experience is a literary event.