Experience - Martin Amis

Before We Face Experience, That Miserable Enemy, Let Us Have Some More Innocence, Just For A While.' Introduced By Zadie Smith In This Masterwork Of Literary Memoir, Martin Amis Tells The Stories Of His Life, Both The Ordinary And The Outlandish From His Bohemian Childhood, Through Fame, Fatherhood And Divorce, To The News Of A Cousin Brutally Murdered, The Agonising Removal Of All His Teeth, The Discovery Of A Long-lost Daughter And, Most Poignantly, The Death Of His Father, And Fellow Novelist Kingsley Amis. One Of The Guardian 's 100 Best Books Of The 21st Century 'martin Amis Is A Seriously Good Writer, And Never On Better Form Than Now.