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Article: LITERARY ENFANT TERRIBLE BRITAIN'S MARTIN AMIS ADDS A STRONG YOUNG VOICE TO CONTEMPORARY FICTION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 9, 1987
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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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