Martin amis christopher hitchens saul bellow biography
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Inside Story (novel)
2020 novel by Martin Amis
Inside Story is an autobiographical novel by the English author Martin Amis, published in 2020. It was Amis' final novel to be published before his death in 2023.[1]
Synopsis
[edit]The book revolves around a fictionalized account of Amis' relationship with three central figures who have died: Philip Larkin, Saul Bellow and Christopher Hitchens. Another central figure, Phoebe Phelps, is entirely fictional, and characterized by a mixture of hyper-sexuality and vulnerability reminiscent of previous female characters written by Amis (e.g. Nicola Six in London Fields, Gloria Prettyman in The Pregnant Widow).[2] The novel begins with Amis welcoming the reader into his home. It is interspersed with sections in which Amis addresses the reader directly and discusses the art of writing. The final part of the novel describes the death of each of the three principal figures (Larkin, Bellow, Hitchens), followed by Amis himself bidding farewell to the reader.
Development
[edit]Amis first attempted to write a second memoir (his first being Experience) during his stay in Uruguay, between 2003 and 2006.[3] It was provisionally called Life. In 2005, having written about 100,000 words, he read t
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Christopher Hitchens: “Bellow, Amis and me.”
Combative political commentator Christopher Hitchens discusses Jews, friends and enemies with Jenni Frazer.
Former radical Trotskyist, Christopher Hitchens is in fine form — even after an overnight flight from Washington, countless cigarettes and a couple of double measures of Johnny Walker Black Label whisky. He is in London to take part in a double act at Jewish Book Week with his oldest and closest friend, Martin Amis, whom he has known for nearly 40 years since their first encounter at Oxford.
“It was 1970, I would have been 20 or 21,” he recalls. “James Fenton [the poet] and I ran into this couple. The girl I knew — Gully Wells, the stepdaughter of A J Ayer, who was said to be the prettiest girl in the university. She was with this person I didn’t know and James introduced us. As we walked away, I said to James, is that any relation of Kingsley? And he said yes… I think the only thing I would have thought was that I hoped he wasn’t as right-wing as his father.”
They did not meet properly until three years later, just after Amis had written his first novel, The Rachel Papers, of which, Hitchens wryly recalls, the publishers were so unsure that Amis was forced to hold his own launch party. The two met in a Holborn