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45-457: A bit more freedom'". The addition of Pheobe Phelps, a completely made-up character, afforded more space for the imagination. The book is divided into an introduction ('Preludial'), five parts (the last three called 'antepenultimate, 'penultimate', and 'ultimate'), and two postscripts ('Afterthought' and 'Addendum'). A short story, 'Oktober', is included between parts 2 and 3. Parts 1 and 4 include interludes in which Amis discusses writing. Death
60-593: 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
75-519: Is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis . The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis , and was first published in 2000. Critical response to Amis's memoir was very warm. In aggregating reviews from the British press upon the book' publication, The Guardian found it received an average rating of 8 out of 10. The book
90-569: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Inside Story (novel) Inside Story is an autobiographical novel by the English author Martin Amis , published in 2020. It was Amis' final novel to be published before his death in 2023. The book revolves around a fictionalized account of Amis' relationship with three central figures who have died: Philip Larkin , Saul Bellow and Christopher Hitchens . Another central figure, Phoebe Phelps,
105-553: Is entirely fictional, and characterized by a mixture of hyper-sexuality and vulnerability reminiscent of previous female characters written by Amis (e.g. Nicola Six in London Fields , Gloria Prettyman in The Pregnant Widow ). The novel begins with Amis welcoming the reader into his home. It is interspersed with sections in which Amis addresses the reader directly and discusses the art of writing. The final part of
120-507: Is the main theme of the book. Amis reflects lengthily upon the death of Larkin, Bellow and Hitchens. He also visits the fictional character Phoebe Phelps in her crippled old age, and comments in a postscript on the death of his stepmother, Elizabeth Jane Howard . Amis also laments the approaching end of his writing life. He confesses that at seventy, writing another long fiction seems unlikely, and that he will probably write shorter works until he will eventually "shut up and read". Inside Story
135-604: The cleft of the book and into the magic space beneath your raised eyebrows." Kevin Power wrote that, as in Amis' best novels, Inside Story creates a feeling of intimacy with the reader. Recalling a line from Saul Bellow's Herzog - "Each man has his own batch of poems", Power summarizes the conundrum of the book's genre thus: "What is Inside Story? A novel? A memoir? Perhaps it’s simply an anthology – autumnal, summative – of Martin Amis’s poems". Experience (book) Experience
150-460: The novel describes the death of each of the three principal figures (Larkin, Bellow, Hitchens), followed by Amis himself bidding farewell to the reader. Amis first attempted to write a second memoir (his first being Experience ) during his stay in Uruguay, between 2003 and 2006. It was provisionally called Life . In 2005, having written about 100,000 words, he read the manuscript and decided it
165-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Inside Story . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inside_Story&oldid=1195473596 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732786899807180-400: 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." Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. The book has appeared on some critics' lists after and during its time of release. According to The Greatest Books , a site that aggregates book lists, it
195-408: Was "dead". He eventually developed a 30-page section of it which he did like into The Pregnant Widow , and abandoned the project for several years. He was moved to try it again following the death of Christopher Hitchens : "when Christopher died I thought, 'Christ, they're all dead now'. I mean, Saul, Christopher and Philip Larkin, who is the other dominant figure. And I thought 'Well, that gives me
210-544: Was also generally well-received amongst American press. According to Book Marks , the book received "rave" reviews based on 6 critic reviews with 3 being "rave" and 3 being "positive". Globally, the work was received generally well, with Complete Review saying on the consensus: "Very positive, with many touched by the book. Complaints vary (the teeth, the arrogance, etc.), but by and large most were very impressed.". James Wood wrote in The Guardian : " Experience
225-583: Was for the most part favourably reviewed, though particular aspects of it were regularly critiqued. Several reviewers were baffled by the claim that it was a novel: "Martin Amis’s “Inside Story” contains so much autofiction, metafiction and just plain nonfiction (there’s an index) that one doesn’t know how to classify the book" Others felt the novel was somewhat recycled, with several ideas and character types appearing in previous novels and essays. As in other Amis novels, critics praised his singular style: "The great lines come flying at you, as always, volleyed out of
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