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Article: Martin Amis's memoirs.(Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2000
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The ties that bind
EXPERIENCE. By Martin Amis. Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 406 pages; $23.95. Jonathan Cape; Pounds18
THERE'S nothing so simple here as beginning at the beginning, going on to the end and then stopping. Perhaps because he is famous and his father is famous, Martin Amis assumes, in his memoirs, that you know the story. What he does may seem "staccato, tangential, stop-go", but it reflects, he says, "the geography of a writer's mind". So, one moment he's six, the next he's 26; here his parents are divorced, a article later married. The point is the parallels and connections. His book is cross-hatched with them, running across from fathers ...