Experience
  • Published: 6 April 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099285823
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $39.99

Experience

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'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph

In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's most prolific serial murderers.

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • Published: 6 April 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099285823
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. Amis died in May 2023.

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Praise for Experience

Remarkable.

Laurence Coupe, Times Higher Education

A scrupulous and candid writer

Guardian

His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant

Arthur Smith, The Week

Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting

Daily Telegraph

On virtually every page there is a phrase that is blissfully funny and ingenious...never less than compelling

Mail on Sunday

Three times in the reading of this book, the courage, compassion and simplicity of Amis's writing brought me to tears. As a portrait of sustaining love between a father and a son, Experience stands alone among the testaments

The Time