Experience (book)

Book of memoirs by Martin Amis

Experience

Author| Martin Amis
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

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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

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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

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Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.

## See also

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* Sally Amis

## References

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1. ^ Moss, Stephen (5 June 2000). "Experience by Martin Amis". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 February 2011.

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Martin Amis

Novels|

* The Rachel Papers (1973)
* Dead Babies (1975)
* Success (1978)
* Other People: A Mystery Story (1981)
* Money: A Suicide Note (1984)
* London Fields (1989)
* Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991)
* The Information (1995)
* Night Train (1997)
* Yellow Dog (2003)
* House of Meetings (2006)
* The Pregnant Widow (2010)
* Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012)
* The Zone of Interest (2014)
* Inside Story (2020)

Short story collections|

* Einstein's Monsters (1987)
* Two Stories (1994)
* Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998)

Screenplays|

* Saturn 3 (1980)
* London Fields (2018)

Non-fiction|

* Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982)
* The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986)
* Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993)
* Experience (2000)
* The War Against Cliché (2001)
* Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002)
* The Second Plane (2008)
* The Rub of Time (2017)

Screen adaptations|

* The Rachel Papers (1989)
* Dead Babies (2000)
* Money (2010)
* Out of Blue (2018)
* London Fields (2018)
* The Zone of Interest (2023)

Miscellaneous|

* Kingsley Amis
* Lemmons

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