Judging by the outpouring since his death was announced, I doubt the work of any modern English writer means so much to so many
Energy is the quality that I have always associated with Martin Amis’s writing., was the king of openings and drew his reader in from the first sentence.The Information
In novels, stories, memoir and reviews, Amis was enormously influential on the generations of writers and critics that came after his own. His books point you towards other books, get you fired up about language and marvelling at what you didn’t know was permitted (the dissonant music, for example, of the way he piles up curtailed sentences inand his delight in inventing verbs such as a car “sharking out of lane” in his novelto TV comedy by Harry Enfield, was a great London writer.
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