Martin Amis
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21. House of Meetings, p. 194.
22. Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction (London: Verso, 2007).
23. Terry Eagleton, ‘Rebuking Obnoxious Views Is Not Just a Personality Kink’, Guardian, 10 October 2007.
24. Times, 8 July 2005.
25. TSP, p. 51.
26. Ibid., p. 74.
27. The Pregnant Widow, p. 404.
28. Leader, Letters, 3 August 1982, p. 947.
29. Mail on Sunday, 20 June 2010.
Chapter 13: Significance: Is He a Great Writer?
1. London Fields, p. 72.
Bibliography
The Rachel Papers (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973).
Dead Babies (London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. Republished as Dark Secrets (St Albans: Triad/Panther, 1977).
Success (London: Jonathan Cape, 1978).
Other People: A Mystery Story (London: Jonathan Cape, 1981).
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide (London: Hutchinson, September 1982).
Money: A Suicide Note (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984).
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986).
Einstein’s Monsters (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987).
London Fields (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).
Time’s Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offence (London: Jonathan Cape, 1991).
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993).
Two Stories (London: Moorhouse and Sørensen, 1994). Contains ‘Denton’s Death’ and ‘Let Me Count the Times’. Small press limited edition, total run of 326 copies.
God’s Dice (London: Penguin, 1995). Contains ‘God’s Dice’ (alternate title of ‘Bujak and the Strong Force’) and ‘The Little Puppy That Could’ (both from Einstein’s Monsters).
The Information (London: HarperCollins, 1995).
Night Train (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997).
Heavy Water and Other Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998).
The Coincidence of the Arts (Paris: Coromandel Express, 1999. Short story from Heavy Water, individual pages housed in a metal container, is illustrated by seven original prints by Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. Limited to fifty-five copies, each signed by M.A. and Testino.
Experience: A Memoir (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000).
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2001).
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002).
Yellow Dog (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003).
House of Meetings (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006).
The Second Plane. September 11: 2001–2007 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2008).
The Pregnant Widow (London: Jonathan Cape, 2010).
Uncollected Works
Fiction
‘Debitocracy’, Penthouse, November 1974, pp. 50–8, 62. Dystopian short story about a future world where sexual passion has been vanquished.
Poetry and Drama
It’s Disgusting at Your Age, in New Review, September 1976, pp. 19–24; rpt in The New Review Anthology (ed. Ian Hamilton), 216–30 (London: Heinemann, 1985). One-act play that anticipates Success.
‘An American Airman Looks Ahead’, Observer, 5 June 1977, p. 28. Poem reflecting Amis’s association with ‘the Martian School’.
‘Point of View’, New Statesman, 14 December 1979, p. 954. Another ‘Martian School’ poem which reappears in Other People: A Mystery.
Produced Screenplay
Saturn 3, dir. Stanley Donen, ITC Films, 1980.
Index
Ableman, Paul 167
Abse, Dannie 191–2
Accidental, The (Ali Smith) 386, 391
Ackroyd, Peter 97–8, 127, 167
Adorno, Theodor 265
Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow) 205–6, 207
After Julius (Jane Howard) 50
alcoholism, sister’s 20, 90, 140
Amis, Clio 311, 316, 329–30, 334–5, 348, 349, 357, 358
Amis, Fernanda 309, 317, 329–30, 348, 357, 358
Amis, Hilary ‘Hilly’ 190, 270–1, 300, 304, 305, 306–7, 316, 381
and D. R. Shackleton Bailey 54, 86–7, 90
in London after break-up with Kingsley 41–5, 46, 47, 48–9, 53–4
and Lord Kilmarnock 87, 110–11, 117, 190, 327, 329–30
marriage to Kingsley 1–5, 7, 8, 9–12, 13–14, 16–21, 23, 24, 25, 30, 34–9, 137–8
Amis, Jacob 227, 276, 297, 299, 300, 302–3, 372–3
Amis, Kingsley 2, 3, 47, 49–53, 54–6, 64, 65, 67, 77–8, 82, 87, 91–2, 98–9, 107, 112, 122, 125, 133, 136, 138–9, 140, 145–6, 147, 148, 158, 159, 164, 178, 183–6, 190, 191–2, 217–18, 229–30, 233, 234–5, 241–2, 270–1, 304, 312, 316, 340, 355, 365, 378, 384
adultery 3–4, 17–20, 25, 29, 34–5, 63, 136, 138
break-up with Hilly 34–9, 42–45, 47, 49–50
break-up with Jane 187–9
marriage to Hilly 1, 2–12, 14, 17–25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 137–8
Martin’s care of 187–92
parallels and contrasts with Martin 58–63, 70, 90, 92–3, 94, 183–5, 268, 270–1, 298, 339, 398
publication of biography and letters 305–9, 325–7
Works:
Girl, 20 88–90, 92
Colonel Sun 50
I Like It Here 110
Lucky Jim 6–7, 8, 9, 57–8, 92–3, 94, 104, 307
Lucky Jim’s Politics 98
On Drink 91–2
Riverside Villas Murder, The 312
Stanley and the Women 191
That Uncertain Feeling 9
Amis, Louis 220, 276, 297, 299–300, 302–3, 323–5, 372–3
Amis, Martin 1, 4, 108–10, 197–9, 201–2 1970s social life 126–35, 144–58
ageing 378–80
and Antonia Phillips 208, 209, 210–12, 213–15, 217–22, 247–9, 309–11
break-up with Antonia 269–73, 276, 296–7, 299, 309–11
in Brighton 56–60, 64
changes agent 283–6
childhood in Cambridge 28–34, 37–8, 82
childhood in Princeton 23–6
childhood in Swansea 8, 9–15, 16–17, 19–23, 24, 25–6, 27
complex love-life in 1970s 115–25, 145, 148–50
contribution to fiction writing 382–98
education 14, 25–7, 30–1, 40, 41, 46–8, 55–60 see also Oxford
European trip with Rob Henderson 68–71
father’s biography and letters 305–9, 325–6
father’s death 316
flat in Hogarth Road, Earl’s Court 99–100
flat in Kensington Garden Square 157
flat in Pont Street, Belgravia 95–6, 97
as freelance interviewer/essayist 179–84, 192–4, 199–200, 280–1
High Wind in Jamaica (film) 45–6, 76
and Isabel Fonseca 268–9, 273, 275, 276, 299, 302, 309–11, 316, 323–4, 325, 328–30, 332, 348, 358
in Israel 231
letter writing style 61–4
in London with Hilly 41–5, 46–7, 49
in London with Jane and Kingsley 44–5, 49–52, 54–6, 76–7, 84, 87–8, 90–2, 95, 116
looking after Kingsley 187–92
in Majorca 39–41, 68–70
Manchester University professorship 364–5, 371–4, 379
at The Old Forge, Shilton 81–2, 115
at Oxford 32, 57, 64, 65–7, 72–9, 81–5
parallels and contrasts with Kingsley 58–63, 70, 90, 92–3, 94, 183–5, 268, 270–1, 298, 339, 398 parenthood 17, 220, 225, 227, 230, 234, 246–7, 249, 256–7, 273, 296–7, 302, 311
parents’ break-up 37–9, 41
in Paris 164, 165–6, 177–8, 207
pre-Oxford social life 52–3, 55, 101–3
reviews 97–8, 104, 167, 172–3, 264–5, 317, 350–2, 361–2
Saturn 3 (film) 163–4, 215–17
Stalinism 331–40
at the TLS 95, 103–4
> in Tuscany 79–80, 270, 375
in Uruguay 328–9, 356–8, 359, 364, 373
working in the US 180–3, 192–4, 199–200
Works:
‘Action at Sea’ 318–19
‘Bujack and the Strong Force or God’s Dice’ 227–9
‘Coming in Handy’ 114
Dead Babies 32–4, 37, 81–2, 100–3, 108–9, 111, 112, 131, 134, 167
‘Denton’s Death’ 317–18
Einstein’s Monsters 225–31, 234, 236, 273, 317, 330
Experience 13, 21–2, 31, 37–9, 44, 49–50, 56, 61, 71, 81, 89, 97, 101, 116, 174, 176, 223, 255–6, 258–9, 288, 296, 299, 301–2, 304–5, 309, 312, 314–16, 325–7, 344, 376
Heavy Water 317–25 ‘Heavy Water’ (short story) 318–19
House of Meetings 357–9, 360–4
The Information 276–83, 286–98, 391–2
Koba the Dread 329, 330, 332, 333, 335–41
London Fields 122, 152, 154–5, 156, 222, 223, 237–46, 249, 252, 279, 391–2, 396–7
Money 109, 201–6, 209–10, 211–16, 217, 279, 282, 341, 390–1
My Oxford 74, 77, 80, 93
Night Train 311–13, 315, 316
Other People: A Mystery Story 169–73, 174–8, 281–2
‘Point of View’ 161
The Pregnant Widow 80, 125, 235–6, 327, 375–8
The Rachel Papers 47–8, 63, 66–7, 74–5, 90, 91–4, 95, 97–8, 104, 125
‘The Second Plane’ 341
The Second Plane 343, 349, 355, 369
State of England’ 319–23
Success 134–42, 143–4, 167
‘Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind’ 349, 369
‘Thinkability’ 226–7, 230–1, 236
Time’s Arrow 257, 259–67, 355
Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions 195–6
‘Voice of the Lonely Crowd’ 341–2
The War Against Cliché 103, 395
‘What Happened to Me on My Holiday’ 323–5, 374–5
Yellow Dog 350–6, 357
see also Islam; Judaism; New Statesman (work and social life); nuclear disarmament; World Trade Centre attacks
Amis, Philip 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12–13, 16–17, 19, 21–2, 24–5, 26, 28–9, 30, 31, 32, 39–41, 44–5, 47, 48–50, 51–2, 54, 76, 89, 98, 136–7, 185, 186, 187, 190, 300, 327, 363, 375
Amis, Rose 20
Amis, Sally 9, 11–12, 17, 20–1, 23, 30, 39, 41, 42, 43, 54, 86, 87, 89–90, 98, 99, 140, 186, 327, 363, 375
Amis, William 20, 21–2, 77
Applebaum, Anne 357, 362
Ardagh, Mr (at Sussex Tutors) 56–7, 62, 64
Arendt, Hannah 266–7
atheism 15–16
Atlantic Monthly 205
Ayer, A. J. ‘Freddie’ 77, 78, 82
Bardwell, Hilary see Amis, Hilary
Bardwell, Leonard and Margery 304, 307
Barker, Elspeth 317
Barnes, Julian 97, 119, 126, 127, 129, 131, 137, 161–2, 188–9, 218, 283, 284–5, 312, 393, 394
Barrowclough, Anne 271 Barry, John 163, 215–17
Bateson, F. W. 67
Battersea Grammar School 41, 46
Baxter, Beverly 45
Behindlings (Nicola Barker) 384
Bellow, Saul 199–202, 205–7, 231, 233–4, 258–9, 316, 344–8, 362–3
Bennett, Ronan 366, 367
Bergonzi, Bernard 168
Betjeman, John 6
Beyond Black (Hilary Mantel) 386
Blackmur, R. P. 23
Blair, Tony 319
Blond, Anthony 219
Bloom, Allan 231, 232–3
Bly, Robert 115, 289
book launches 97–9, 190
Booker Prize 240, 264–6, 286–7, 356
Bookseller 168
Boxer, Mark 153
Boycott, Rosie 164, 186, 217–18
Boyd, Alastair see Kilmarnock, Lord Boyd, Jaime 111, 190
Boyd, William 288–9
Braine, John 319, 330
Brazzaville Beach (William Boyd) 288–9
break-up, parents’ 34–7
Brighton, studies in 56–60, 64
Brilliant Creatures (Clive James) 158
Brooklyn 365 Brown, George Hambley 105
Brown, Tina 100, 105–8, 116–17, 119, 145, 151–2, 179–80, 372, 375
Brown, Yasmin Alibhai 366
Buchan, James 265 Buford, Bill 168
Bursa (kebab house) 129, 130–1
Bury Me Standing (Isabel Fonseca) 275–6
Butterfield, Herbert 28
Butyrki death camp 334–5
Cambridge, Amis home in 27–34, 36–8, 82, 137–8
Cambridgeshire High School for Boys 30–1
Cape publishers 53, 56, 95, 99, 281–2, 283, 286
Capote, Truman 180, 199
Carey, John 65–7, 356
Cartwright, Justin 252
Caute, David 161, 162
Cecil, Lord David 67
Cherry (Matt Thorne) 384–5, 391
Chesterton Road (home with Antonia and boys) 218, 220–1, 247–8, 254, 276, 310, 372
Churchill, Winston 121
Cleary, Esmond 10
Cock and Bull (Will Self) 387
Cohen, Milton 86
Comp. Complex 131–2, 162
Conquest, Robert 4, 19, 61, 77, 89, 98, 119, 132, 133, 148, 159, 178, 187, 229–30, 234, 309, 331, 332
Conrad, Joseph 358
Conservative Conference, Blackpool (1977) 153
Crichton, Michael 395
Crook, Arthur 103
Daft, Rohan 271
Daily Express 36, 162, 190, 272, 303
Daily Mail 151, 271, 309, 332, 366
Daily Telegraph 95, 366
Davies, Laing and Dick 47–8, 52
Davies, Russell 128
Dawson, Sam 14
Day-Lewis, C. 116
Day-Lewis, Tamasin 115–16
Debt to Pleasure, The (John Lanchester) 384
Deller, Keith and Kim 239
Donen, Stanley 216
Donne, John 59, 60
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 358
Douglas, Kirk 216, 217
drugs 49–50
Eagleton, Terry 365–8, 371, 374
East Hampton, Isabel’s family in 274, 323, 328, 359
education 14, 25–6, 30–1, 40, 41, 46, 47–8, 52, 55–7
Eichmann, Adolf 259–61, 266–7
Empson, William 103
Encounter 317
Evans, Gareth 208–9, 212
Evans, Harold 119, 179
Evening Standard 151, 190, 271, 283, 309
Exeter College, Oxford 65, 67, 72–9, 83
expulsion from school 46
Eyre, Richard 31–2, 154
Fairlie, Henry 17–18, 19–20, 41
Fawcett, Edmund 323
Fawcett, Elias 323–5
Fawcett, Farah 216
Feinstein, Elaine 33
Fenton, James 78, 97, 113, 119, 126, 128–9, 133, 142–3, 149, 151, 153, 160–1, 162, 178, 188, 253–4, 338–9, 340
Fiction and the Fiction Industry (John Sutherland) 168
Flack, Karen 45
Fonseca, Isabel 121, 268–9, 273–6, 299, 302, 309–11, 316, 323–4, 325, 328–30, 332, 348, 356–7, 358, 359, 364
Foster, Steve 223
Frye, Northrop 83
Fulham Road, Chelsea (Amis home) 41, 43–4, 45, 48–9
Fuller, Graham 144
Fuller, John and Roy 78
Furness, Mary 121–3, 147–50, 154–6, 210, 243–4, 245
Gale, George 19, 27–8, 30, 36, 43, 44, 49, 54
Gale, Pat 19, 30
Garcia, Eva and Joe 9, 10–12, 37
Gardnor House, Flask Walk (Amis home) 158, 164, 185–6, 187, 188–9, 190, 300, 327, 354
Ghost Story (Toby Litt) 385–6
Gilbert, Martin 259, 331
Gorgas, Angela 79, 151, 156–8, 164–6, 169–70, 177–8, 179, 185–6, 189–90, 207–8, 220, 232, 313
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Granta 168
Graves, Robert 35, 69–70
Great Terror (Robert Conquest) 331
Greene, Graham 233–4
Gross, John 95, 113
Guardian 341–2, 362, 365, 366–7, 374
Guinness, Sabrina 153
Gulag: A History (Anne Applebaum) 357,
Hamilton, Ian 98, 128, 129, 130, 147, 149–50, 154, 168, 375
Hammond, Suzy 282–3
HarperCollins 286–7
Healey, Denis and Tim 76
Heathcoat-Amory, Bridget 152
Heller, Joseph 199–200
Henderson, Michael 366
Henderson, Rob 48, 52–3, 55, 56, 68–71, 81, 84, 87, 95–7, 98, 102–3, 363–4, 375
Hensher, Philip 366 Hewer, Rosalind 76–7, 78
High Wind in Jamaica (film) 45–6, 76
Hislop, Andy 223, 224, 255, 270, 295–6, 309–10, 379
Hitchens, Christopher 16, 78, 96–7, 98, 99, 100, 109, 113, 117, 118–19, 120, 121, 122, 123–4, 126, 127–8, 129–30, 132–3, 137, 142–4, 146–7, 148–54, 155–6, 158, 159, 162, 164, 165–6, 178, 189, 191, 207, 210–11, 212–13, 218–19, 221, 223, 232, 241, 243–4, 248–9, 254, 256, 269, 270, 284–5, 302, 316–17, 325, 327, 332–3, 336–9, 340, 344–8, 367, 375
Hitchens, Peter 332
Hogarth Road, Earl’s Court (Amis home) 99–100
Holbrook, Bruno (pseudonym) 106, 114, 132
Holbrook, David 114
Holden, Anthony 117, 119 Hopkins, Gerard Manley 59, 60
Howard, Anthony 107, 113–14, 117, 118, 119, 135, 142–3, 144–5, 150, 158–9, 160, 162, 189, 313
Howard, Colin 42, 43–5, 46–7, 51, 55–6, 68, 70–1, 77, 87, 93–4, 95, 96, 101–2, 104, 107, 116, 135, 137, 138, 187, 188, 222, 340, 366
Howard, Elizabeth Jane 34–7, 42–5, 47, 49–50, 51, 53, 54–7, 58, 63, 64, 65, 77, 79, 87, 89, 91, 115–16, 138, 146, 164, 187, 188, 268, 366
Iffley Road, Oxford (Amis home) 82–3, 84
Imlah, Mick 274
Independent 274, 317, 356, 366
Islam 342–3, 348–9, 365–71
Israel 231–3, 259, 343–4, 346
ITC Entertainment 163
Jacobs, Eric 305–7
Jamaica 45–6
James, Clive 97, 98–9, 119, 123, 126–8, 129–30, 142–3, 148, 149, 150, 158, 222, 245, 348–9, 379
Jenkins, Alan 148, 211, 275–6
Jimenez, Natalia 323
John Harrison, M. 362
Jones, Monica 6
Jones, Penny 49