Amis And Son. Two Literary Generations

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 429 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp to inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Kingsley And Martin Amis Are Among The Most Successful British Novelists Of The Last Fifty Years, Both Are Known Fortheir Savage Wit And Their Readiness To Cause Controversy.

Publishers Description: Two of the most successful British novelists of the last fifty years, Kingsley and Martin Amis are both known for their savage wit and their indifference to causing controversy. In his critical biography, Neil Powell looks at the careers of these two very divisive, and hugely talented writers: how they were formed by their upbringings, developed as writers and in turn how they affected literature, and each other. He examines how success (which is the title one of Martin Amis's novels) affected their relationship, and themselves as writers (Kingsley: "Martin's spending a year abroad for tax purposes. 29, he is. Little shit."). Through this we see what it has meant to be a man, and a writer, (and, most importantly, a comic writer) in Britain over the last sixty years, following Kinglsey from jazz-loving iconoclast to Thatcher-loving Tory and Martin from wild young man of letters to God knows what.

ISBN: 9781405054621