Martin Amis attended Oxford and later worked for the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, and The Observer. His first novel, The Rachel Papers, won the 1974 Somerset Maugham Award. He has since established himself as one of England's foremost writers.

1. Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis 3,135 ratings, 3.88 average rating, 151 reviews Experience Quotes Showing 1-14 of 14 “What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose?
2. I am a novelist, trained to use experience for other ends. Why should I tell the story of my life? I do it because my father is dead now, and I always knew I would have to commemorate him. He was a writer and I” Extras din: Martin Amis. “Experience.” iBooks.
3. Inside Story whiplashes the reader between more decades (roughly from the start of Amis’s career in 1973 with The Rachel Papers, right up to the age of Trump) and more figures than his memoir Experience (perhaps Amis’s best book to date, and certainly his most finely structured).
4. The Martin Amis who wrote Experience seems to be an ardent, compassionate and thoughtful man; good company in any situation calling for wry self-abnegation (those teeth!) and fierce devotion. This is full of delights: screams (of laughter and horror), drinks, youth and the loss of it, life and the loss of it, self-recognition (the point of.

Martin Amis is known as “the best American writer England has ever produced. The enfant terrible of the Brit lit scene, Martin Amis had a midlife crisis five years ago when he left his wife for another woman and his long time British agent (and wife of his best friend, Julian Barnes) for an American agent who secured him an unheard of advance of $800,000.

When he spent $30,000 of the advance on dental surgery and reconstruction, he got skewered in the press for his vanity, his disloyalty, his arrogance.

Now the most unabashedly competitive of writers has stepped forward to reclaim his life from the hands of his tormentors. “Experience” is the result — his first memoir and an attempt to set the record straight, “to speak, for once,” Amis says, “without artifice.” Martin Amis’ “Experience” is a reflection on his father, his teeth, loss, divorce, friendship, love and death.
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