Book when money dies6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Violence is what I hate most, is what baffles me and disgusts me most,” Amis told The Associated Press in 2012. The Holocaust was the topic of Amis’ novel “Time’s Arrow” and Josef Stalin’s reign in Russia in “House of Meetings,” examples of how his writing explored the dark soul. The film, about a Nazi commandant who lives next to Auschwitz with his family, drew some of the best reviews of the festival. Jonathan Glazer’s adaption of Amis’ 2014 novel “The Zone of Interest” premiered Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. Martin Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie.Īmong his best-known works were “Money,” a satire about consumerism in London, “The Information” and “London Fields,” along with his 2000 memoir, “Experience.” His death on Friday at his home in Florida, from cancer of the esophagus, was confirmed by his agent, Andrew Wylie, on Saturday.Īmis was the son of another British writer, Kingsley Amis. NEW YORK (AP) - British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. ![]()
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