Research Catalog

Title

Inside story : a novel / by Martin Amis.

Author

Amis, Martin

Publication

• New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xxi, 538 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitchens was Martin's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Martin must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other significant figures competing as Martin's main influencers are his father, Kingsley, his hero Saul Bellow, the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin, and significant literary women from Iris Murdoch to Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Martin's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die. Along the way, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life--and to the people in his life--that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world"--

Subject

• Amis, Martin > Fiction
• Amis, Martin
• Authors > Fiction
• Authors
• FICTION / Literary
• FICTION / Friendship
• FICTION / Biographical

Genre/Form

• Autobiographical fiction.
• Fiction.

Note

• Includes index.
• "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.

Contents

Preludial -- Ethics and morals... The American eagle -- Guideline: Things fiction can't do -- Phoebe: the business... So I went round there -- Guideline: The novel moves on -- Jerusalem... Bitter furies of complexity -- Guideline: Literature and violence -- The night of shame... She's scaring me, Hitch -- Transitional: The sources of the being -- France in the time of Iraq 1: Anti:américain -- September 11 (1): The day after -- September 11 (2): The day before the day after -- September 11 (3): The days after the day after -- France in the time of Iraq 2: Shock and awe -- Interludial: Memos to my reader, and 'Oktober' -- The shadow-line... Nobodaddy -- Hitchens goes to Houston... He's an ox -- Politics and the bedroom... Not left wing enough -- Hitchens stays on in Houston... The synchrotron -- And say why it never worked for me... Invidia -- Preamble: The fire on New Year's Eve -- Christopher: Everyone pray for Hitchens Day -- How to write: The mind's ear -- Saul: Idlewild -- How to write: Decorum -- Philip: The love of his life -- How to write: Impersonal forces -- Beelzebub -- How to write: The uses of variety -- London: Phoebe at seventy-five -- 'It seemed that out of battle I escaped' -- The poet: December 1985 -- The novelist: April 2005 -- The essayist: December 2011 -- Postludial -- Afterthought: Masada and the Dead Sea -- Addendum: Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Call Number

JFE 21-740

ISBN

• 9780593318294
• 0593318293
• 9780593318300 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020021012

OCLC

1151511622

Author

Amis, Martin, author.

Title

Inside story : a novel / by Martin Amis.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First United States edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Amis, Martin, Inside story New York First edition. : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 9780593318300 (DLC) 2020021013

Research Call Number

JFE 21-740