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Martin Amis’s House of Meetings
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Bu Tom Ashbrook.

British literary superstar Martin Amis has been the novelist the English love to hate, to haunt, to ogle.

Son of the famed writer Kingsley Amis – bad boy, playboy and snob in the London tabloids – for Martin Amis, writes The Observer – publication day for a new novel is “a carnivorous and gleeful public carnival: the bastards (reviewers) all want your guts for garters.”

Some days they’ve had them, some days they haven’t. His latest novel, “House of Meetings” – the story of a heart-breaking love triangle played out in a Soviet slave-labor camp – is getting hosannahs. And Amis is still at full sail – on Islam, America, feminism, snobbery.

This hour On Point: a conversation with the unflinching novelist, Martin Amis.

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Martin Amis, author of the new book “House of Meetings”. His previous books include “London Fields”, “Night Train”, and “The Rachel Papers”.

 
 

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