Article: Review: Books: The new model Martin Amis Do these memoirs signal a complete break with the novelist's past? wonders Ian Hamilton

Experience

by Martin Amis

Jonathan Cape, pounds 18, 401 pp

pounds 15 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222

ABOUT 20 YEARS ago, The New Statesman ran a competition in which contestants were invited to propose titles for a "shortest book". One of the winners - alongside Italian War Heroes and The Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip - was My Struggle by Martin Amis.

Martin Amis at the time had published two or three amusing novels and won the odd literary prize but he had by no means secured the top spot that is his today. Even so, he was clearly on the way. As well as writing novels, he was prominent as an editor and book reviewer and was generally visible on the literary scene.

For his rivals and ...

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