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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Inside story
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Amis, Martin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First United States edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 538 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today, his most intimate and epic work yet, an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books and where to lunch), Hitchens was Martin's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps, an obsession Martin must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other significant figures competing as Martin's main influencers are his father, Kingsley, his hero Saul Bellow, the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin and significant literary women from Iris Murdoch to Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, Martin's quest is a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions of how to live, how to grieve and how to die. Along the way, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first and considers what all of this has taught him about how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life, and to the people in his life, that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.
  note: by Martin Amis.
  note: Includes index.
  note: "A Borzoi book."
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Amis, Martin
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Authors
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Friendship
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Biographical
  classification: PR6051.M5 I57 2020
  classification: 823/.914
  identifier: 9780593318294
  identifier: 0593318293
  identifier: 9780593318300
  identifier: 2020021012
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200508
    record change date: 20210427115431.0
    record identifier: in00004412486