Experience (book)
Book of memoirs by Martin Amis
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Experience is a memoir by Martin Amis, published in 2000. The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, who died in 1995.
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| Author | Martin Amis |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (hardback · paperback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 0224050605 |
| OCLC | 44155012 |
Reception
James Wood wrote in The Guardian: "Experience is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book, and it is unlike anything one expected." Terence Baker, in The Sunday Times, called it a "careful, heartfelt tribute". Jackie Wullschlager wrote in the Financial Times: "The core here is family, and it is movingly, beautifully, evoked... The raw materials – neurotic, outrageous genius of a father; gorgeous earth-mother Hilly; sophisticated step-mother Elizabeth Jane Howard; stunning girlfriends dropped along the way like a shattering string of pearls; an unknown daughter emerging at 18 – are unbeatable, and Amis makes of them a loving, perceptive, comic portrait."[1]
Awards
Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.
