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Experience (book)
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| Author | Martin Amis |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Miramax Books |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (hardback · paperback) |
| OCLC | 44155012 |
Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis.
Publication history
[edit]The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, and was first published in 2000.
Reception
[edit]James Wood wrote in The Guardian: "Experience is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book, and it is unlike anything one expected." Terence Baker, in The Sunday Times, called it a "careful, heartfelt tribute". Jackie Wullschlager wrote in the Financial Times: "The core here is family, and it is movingly, beautifully, evoked... The raw materials – neurotic, outrageous genius of a father; gorgeous earth-mother Hilly; sophisticated step-mother Elizabeth Jane Howard; stunning girlfriends dropped along the way like a shattering string of pearls; an unknown daughter emerging at 18 – are unbeatable, and Amis makes of them a loving, perceptive, comic portrait."[1]
Awards
[edit]Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Moss, Stephen (5 June 2000). "Experience by Martin Amis". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
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