Inside Story. A Novel

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 521 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 classicHis 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 authors 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.

ISBN: 9781787332751