Martin Amis: The Biography
Author(s): Richard Bradford
Martin Amis son of one of the popular novelists of the post-War era, has forged a groundbreaking manner of writing that owes nothing to the style of his father, nor indeed to anyone else. This title offers the real Martin Amis, a cabinet of contrasts: tortured, eloquently aloof, kind, obsessive, loved by women, and a dedicated family man.
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The first biography of one of contemporary British literature's most gifted and controversial authors.
Born in Derbyshire in 1957, Richard Bradford was educated at the University of Wales and at Oxford. He has held academic posts in Oxford, Wales and Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently and Research Professor in English at the University of Ulster. He has published twenty books, including Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis (2001), First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin (2005) and The Life of A Long Distance Writer: The Authorised Biography of Alan Sillitoe.
General Fields
- :
- : Constable and Robinson
- : Constable
- : 0.825
- : 31 August 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Illustrations, ports.
- : 448
- : oc2011003629
- : Scholarly/Undergraduate
- : 823.914
- : English
- : 1
- : Hardback
- : Richard Bradford