Experience (book)

Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis.

Experience

Author	Martin Amis
Language	English
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	Miramax Books
Publication date	2000
Media type	Print (hardback · paperback)
OCLC	44155012

Publication history

The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, and was first published in 2000.

Reception

James Wood wrote in The Guardian: "Experience is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book, and it is unlike anything one expected." Terence Baker, in The Sunday Times, called it a "careful, heartfelt tribute". Jackie Wullschlager wrote in the Financial Times: "The core here is family, and it is movingly, beautifully, evoked... The raw materials – neurotic, outrageous genius of a father; gorgeous earth-mother Hilly; sophisticated step-mother Elizabeth Jane Howard; stunning girlfriends dropped along the way like a shattering string of pearls; an unknown daughter emerging at 18 – are unbeatable, and Amis makes of them a loving, perceptive, comic portrait."^[1]

Awards

Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.

See also

• Sally Amis