Book description
In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic
novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and
writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final
one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his
cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was
exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of
Britain's most prolific serial murderers. Martin Amis is the author of
twelve previous novels, the memoir
Experience
, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most
recently The Second Plane
. He lives in New York.
