{"product_id":"inside-story-martin-amis-9780593311714","title":"Inside Story","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time, a\u003c\/b\u003en autobiographical novel that's a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction...Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis novel 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 \u003ci\u003eInside Story\u003c\/i\u003e 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), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps--an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers--Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin--and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, he winds up surveying 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 live and how to be a writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Amis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059331171X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593311714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Martin Amis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049543561471,"sku":"9780593311714","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c01d6f37-c430-48a1-842f-08ee39162929.jpg?v=1685002110","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inside-story-martin-amis-9780593311714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}