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Article: Song of Himself.(Review)
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- National Review
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- August 28, 2000
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Experience, by Martin Amis (Talk/Hyperion, 406 pp., $23.95)
You have to wonder about a country where anybody's dental implants make national news. If a British empire still exists on which the sun has yet to set, it is the island's navel-gazing press. London still prints three times the number of dailies as New York, and that culture's crown prince is Martin Amis. The much-scrutinized son and heir apparent of comic author Kingsley Amis, Martin went on to become a biting post-modern novelist-with books like The Rachel Papers, Money, and London Fields-and the feared chief critic of the Sunday Times. He also became a favorite whipping boy of the tabloid press, which ...