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INSIDE STORY - MARTIN AMIS KARTONIERT (TB)

This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest
writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic *Shortlisted for the
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction* His most intimate and epic work to date  Inside
Story is the unseen portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life  as a man and a writer. This
novel had its birth in a death - that of the author's closest friend  Christopher Hitchens. We
also encounter the vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis  from his father
Kingsley  to his hero Saul Bellow  from Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard
and to the person who captivated his twenties  the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps. What begins
as a thrilling tale of romantic entanglements  family and friendship  evolves into a tender 
witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live  how to grieve  and how to die? In his
search for answers  Amis surveys the great horrors of the twentieth century  and the still
unfolding impact of the 9 11 attacks on the twenty-first - and what all this has taught him
about how to be a writer. The result is one of Amis' greatest achievements: a love letter to
life that is at once exuberant  meditative  heartbreaking and ebullient  to be savoured and
cherished for many years to come. 'The Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling
prose stylist in post-war British fiction.' Daily Telegraph

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