Martin Amis

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Money, London Fields, and The Details are three of Amis' most well-known books, which are often referred to as his "London Trilogy." Although the books differ in terms of plot and plot, they all look at middle-aged men, tracing the sordid, debauched, and post-apocalyptic undercurrents of life in late twentieth-century Britain. The London protagonists of Amis are anti-heroes: they are involved in questionable conduct, are passionate iconoclasts, and are determined to escape the apparent banality and futility of their lives. "The world is like a human being," he says. And there is a scientific term for it, entropy—everything tends to chaos. "From an ordered state to a troubled state."

A Suicide Note (subscriptions) by John Self, a television man and would-be film producer who is "addicted to the twentieth century," says the first-person narrative. The novel is "a] satire of Thatcherite amorality and greed as Self flies back and forth across the Atlantic, in crass and seemingly chaotic pursuits of personal and corporate fulfillment. Time included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language books of 1923 to 2005. The Guardian announced on November 11, 2009, that the BBC had adapted Money for television as part of the BBC's early 2010 schedule for BBC 2. Nick Frost played John Self. Vincent Kartheiser, Emma Pierson, and Jerry Hall were also included in the television version. Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford wrote the script, and it was a "two-part drama." Amis was quick to praise the conversion, saying that "all the performances (were) were without weak spots" after the first two parts were broadcast. As John Self, Nick Frost was positively extraordinary. He brings the character. It's a very odd performance in that he's distinctly comedic, but it's also a pleasure to watch...even though it wasn't expensive, it's still an amazing achievement...But still, it's a shame that it wasn't...It's actually great. Rather than making it up, my suggestion was to use more of the novel's words, the dialogue.

As a climate disaster nears, London Fields (1989), Amis' longest work, details the encounters of three main characters in London in 1999. The characters have common Amisian names and broad caricatured attributes: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts; Nicola Six, the naughty, the villain, and Guy Clinch, the middle-class fool, the pit, who is likely to meet between the two groups. Maggie Gee and Helen McNeil, two panel members, voted against Amis' treatment of his female characters, causing the book to be barred from the Booker Prize shortlist in 1989. Martyn Goff, the Booker's director, told The Independent, "It was an amazing row." "Maggie and Helen felt that Amis treated women appallingly in the novel." That is not to say that women's books were bad, but rather that the author should make it clear that he did not endorse or endorse such treatment. Okay, there were only two of them and they should have been outnumbered when the other three were in agreement, but they did not win due to the sheer power of their argument and passion. David [Lodge] has told me he regrets it to this day, but Martin's on the list says he fails because he said, 'It's two against three'."

The short Time's Arrow, Amis' 1991 book, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Award. The book is not notable for its backwards story; it includes dialogue in reverse; the novel is the autobiography of a Nazi concentration camp doctor. The reversal of time in the novel, which was a feature in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) and Philip K. Dick's Counter-Clock World (1967), actually turns Auschwitz—and the entire theatre of war — into a place of joy, healing, and resurrection.

The Information (1995) was not so much about its academic success, but for the controversies surrounding its publication. After the writer's long-serving agent, Pat Kavanagh, was released by Amis with a massive advance (an accused £500,000) demanded and subsequently obtained by Amis for the book, writer and commentator alike reacted angrily to the Harvard-educated Andrew Wylie's absence. The split was by no means amicable; it created a rift between Amis and his long-time friend, Julian Barnes, who was married to Kavanagh. According to Amis' autobiography Encountercountercounter (1999), he and Barnes had not resolved their differences. The information in itself deals with a romance between two British writers of fiction. His companion, a struggling writer of philosophical and generally abstruse prose, is envious of one of his tremendously successful purveyors of "airport novels." The novel is written in the author's classic style: stereotyped caricatures, grotesque elaborations on middle-age male sex, and a general sense of post-apocalyptic malaise emerges.

Mike Hoolihan, a tough woman detective with a man's name, narrates Amis' 1997 offering, the short novel Night Train. The story revolves around her boss's teenage, stunning, and ostensibly happy daughter. Night Train is written in the words of American 'noir' crime fiction, but it subverts the hopes for an exciting probe with a happy, satisfying conclusion. Critics tended to ignore the book's true story, and it was not immune to a scathing critique. It was feared by John Updike, who also disapproved of a British author who wrote in an American dialect. But the novel found defenders elsewhere, including in Janis Bellow, Amis' mentor and acquaintance Saul Bellow.

The 2000s were Amis' least productive decade in terms of full-length fiction since (two novels in ten years), although his non-fiction work saw a significant increase in volume (three published works include a memoir, a blend of semi-memoir and amateur political history, and another journalist collection).

Amis published Experience in 2000. Despite being concerned about the author's strange friendship with his father, author Kingsley Amis, the autobiography also addresses several aspects of Amis' life. Of particular note is Amis' reunion with his daughter, Delilah Seale, who suffered from a 1970s affair that he didn't see until she was 19. Amis also addresses the murder of his cousin Lucy Partington by Fred West when she was 21. The book was named a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.

Many writers and scholars in the West published Koba the Dread, a devastating record of Lenin and Stalin's murders and their denial by several writers and academics in the West. The book sparked a literary controversy due to its introduction to the subject and its criticism of Amis' long-time friend Christopher Hitchens. Amis accuses Hitchens, who was once a committed leftist, of a strong sympathy for Stalin and communism. Despite Hitchens' vitriol in The Atlantic, his relationship with Amis remained unchanged: Amis said in reaction to a reporter's query, "We never had to make up." We had an adult debate, mainly in print, and that was that (or, more accurately, that goes on being called that). My Hitch's friendship has always been tense. "It's a love whose month is never May."

Amis' first book in six years, Yellow Dog, was released in 2003. The book attracted mixed reviews, with one of them, Tibor Fischer, saying: "Young Dog isn't bad" as in not very good or marginally disappointing. It's not knowing where to look bad, but it's not knowing. On the Tube, I was afraid someone would look over my shoulder...I'm sure you're the same uncle who was caught in a school playground, masturbating." Elsewhere, the book received mixed reviews, with some commentators predicting the book's return to form, but most considered it to be a huge disappointment. Amis was unconcerned about the book and its reactions, dubbed Yellow Dog "among my top three" in the book. "No one wants to read a difficult literary book or deal with a prose style that tells them how thick they are." Instead of a more vocal voice, there's a push toward egalitarianism, which is making writing more chummy and interactive, rather than a higher voice, and that's what I go to literature for." Despite some scathing reports, Yellow Dog "controversially made the 13-book longlist for the 2003 Booker Prize" but did not win the award.

Following the scathing feedback given to Yellow Dog, Amis and his family migrated from London to Uruguay for two years, during which time he concentrated on his next book away from the London literary scene's glare and strains.

Amis' eleventh book was published in September 2006, on his return from Uruguay. The House of Meetings, a short work, continued the author's crusade against Stalinism, although there was also some mention of the state of modern Soviet Russia. The novel explores two brothers who were imprisoned in a prototypical Siberian gulag who had loved the same woman prior to their removal. The House of Meetings received some more constructive feedback than Yellow Dog had three years ago, but there were also some commentators who felt that Amis' fiction output had greatly diminished in quality, while others believed that he was not qualified to write an ostensibly critical historical book. Despite the laud for House of Meetings, Amis was overlooked once more for the Booker Prize longlist. The novel was supposed to have been published alongside two short stories, one of which was a sad account of a body-double's trial in Saddam Hussein's court, and the other, the simulated final moments of Muhammad Atta, the author of the 11 September attacks, but Amis decided to jettison both from the book." According to the same story, Amis had "recently abandoned a novella The Unknown Known (the title was based on one of Donald Rumsfeld's most strangular linguistic formulations), in which Muslim terrorists unleashed a horde of compulsive rapists on Greeley, Colorado, and then went back to work on a sequel-up full novel that he had started writing in 2003: the author claims that Amis had "new rabin

The new novel took a long time to write, and it wasn't published before the decade's end. Rather, Amis' last published work in the 2000s was the 2008 journalism collection The Second Plane, which assembled Amis' many writings on 9/11 and the resulting major events and cultural trends following the War on Terror. The reception to The Second Plane was mixed, with some commentators finding its tone thoughtful and well-founded, while others felt that it was overly stylized and lacking in authoritative knowledge of the key areas under scrutiny. The two short stories included in the collection were the least popular feature of the collection, according to the most common consensus. The collection, which was very well-received, was widely discussed and debated.

Amis' long-awaited new long book, The Pregnant Widow, which is concerned with the sexual revolution, was released in 2010. The novel's publication was originally planned for publication in 2008, but it was postponed as more editing and improvements were made, extending it to 480 pages. Alexander Herzen's book's name is based on a quote:

The first public reading of the then-completed version of The Pregnant Widow took place on May 11, 2009, as part of the Norwich and Norfolk festival. "The writing at this reading, according to the coverage of the Norwich Writer' Center by Katy Carr's coverage, as the narrator muses on the dangers of the sexual revolution in personal relations, "the portrayal of the mirror as an old man." The sexual revolution was the time, as Amis sees it, that passion was divorced from sex. He started to write autobiographically, but then realized that real life was too different from fiction and impossible to drum into novel form, so he had to rethink the format."

Keith Nearing, a 20-year-old English literature student; his partner, Lily; and her companion, Scheherazade, are on holiday in Campania, Italy, where Amis says "something is changing in the world of men and women." In 2009, Keith's superego, or conscience, was the narrator. Violet Keith's sister, Sally, is based in Amis' own sister, Sally, who is regarded as one of the revolution's most heroic victims by Amis.

The Pregnant Widow, a whirl of publicity, got mixed feedback from the media, with sales being average at best. Despite a slew of coverage, some insightful studies, and a general feeling that Amis' time for recognition had come, the novel was ignored for the 2010 Man Booker Prize long list.

Lionel Asbo: State of England, published in 2012 by Amis. Desmond Pepperdine and his uncle Lionel Asbo, a voracious yob and persistent convict, are the protagonists of the novel. It's based on the fictional borough of Diston Town, a gritty rip-out of modern-day Britain under the reign of celebrity culture, and it follows the dramatic events in both characters' lives: Desmond's gradual growth and maturing; and Lionel's huge lottery win of approximately 140 million pounds. Amis based the identity of Lionel Asbo's future bride, the glamorous glamour model and poet "Threnody" on the British celebrity Jordan, much to the journalist's curiosity. (quotation marks included). Amis said the book was not "a frowning examination of England" but rather a "fairytale world," adding that Lionel Asbo: State of England was not an attack on the country, insisting he was "proud of being English" and treating the country with affection. Reviews, once more, were largely mixed.

The Zone of Concern, Amis' 2014 book, raises questions about the Holocaust, his second work of fiction to address the topic after Time's Arrow. Amis explores the cultural and domestic lives of the Nazi officers who ran the death camps, as well as the effect of human suffering's indifference to human suffering on their general psychology.

Amis unveiled two new projects in December 2016. The first, a collection of journalism, titled The Rub of Time, Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016, was published in October 2017. Amis' second book, which is a new untitled book, is an autobiographical book about three key literary figures in his life: poet Philip Larkin, American novelist Saul Bellow, and noted public intellectual Christopher Hitchens. "I'm writing an autobiographical book that I've been trying to write for 15 years," Amis said of the novel-in-progress. It's not about me; it's about three other writers—a poet, an essayist, and Christopher Hitchens—and, since I started writing it, Larkin died in 1985, Bellow died in 2005, but it gives me a bit more freedom; fiction is liberty. It's difficult, but the one positive is that I have the freedom to create things. "I no longer have them looking over my shoulder."

"I think of writing as I get older, not less mysterious." Amis wrote about writing in 2014: "I think of writing as I get older." The entire process is quite bizarre. "It's very spooky."

Inside Story, Amis' first in six years, was published in September 2020.

Amis has also published two collections of short stories (Einstein's Monsters and Heavy Water), five volumes of collected journalism and criticism (The Moronic Inferno, The Second Plane, and The Rub of Time), as well as a brief history of 1980s space-themed arcade video game consoles that he has since regretted (invasion of the Space Invaders). He has appeared on television and radio broadcasting programs, as well as contributing book reviews and articles to newspapers. Isabel Fonseca's mother published her debut novel Attachment in 2009, and two of Amis' children, Louis and his daughter Fernanda, were also published in Standpoint magazine and The Guardian.

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