Article: LITERARY ENFANT TERRIBLE BRITAIN'S MARTIN AMIS ADDS A STRONG YOUNG VOICE TO CONTEMPORARY FICTION

WASHINGTON - Looking a little like a well-bred James Dean, writer Martin Amis is rolling his own cigarettes in the posh, brass-and-mahogany tearoom of the Hay Adams Hotel. It's British tobacco, of course, and Amis -- wearing slacks and a blue Oxford shirt, casting a surly but demure gaze around the room -- seems begrudgingly at home.

He is in Washington with 20,000 other bibliophiles for the American Booksellers Assn. Convention over Memorial Day weekend, and this is the first afternoon of a five-day frenzy of interviews, dinner parties, readings and autograph signings. Well-known as both a novelist and critic, Amis is getting four-star treatment at the ABA this year, but celebrity ...

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