{"product_id":"experience-9780224050609","title":"Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Amis is perhaps the most gifted novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brillant instrument  dazzling readers with its energy and wit. His novels and short stories chart a world that is uniquely his: as John Updike puts it  Amis is trying to construct a large  reaching  ambitious set of books - trying to cover the world in fiction. His celebrity as a novelist is also unique - few writers have attracted such obsessive media attention. In this much anticipated memoir  Amis writes with striking candour about his life and looks intimately at the process of writing itself. As the son of a famous writer  the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis  Martin Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsleys life  including the final crisis of his death. Amis also examines the case of his cousin  Lucy Partington  who disappeared without a trace in 1973 (a month after the publication of his first novel)  and was exhumed in 1994 from the back garden of Frederick West  Britains most prolific serial killer. Inevitably  too  the memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States  with many anecdotes and pen-portraits. The result is a remarkable work of autobiography - profound  witty and ruthlessly honest. As a writers self-portrait  it is destined to become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495999463477,"sku":"ByrdShop_0224050605","price":200.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780224050609.jpg?v=1780905946","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/experience-9780224050609","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}