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title: "Inside Story: A novel"
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# Inside Story: A novel

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A very unusual book, part autobiography, part fiction, part technical writing advice
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021*

The book’s publishing date is 2020 but the writing was finished in 2016 before Donald Trump’s election in November.The author is very honest about what this book will be like in the opening paragraph of the “Preludial”:“Welcome! Do step in – this is a pleasure and a privilege. Let me help you with that. I will just take your coat and hang it up here (oh, and incidentally that’s the way to the bathroom). Sit on the sofa, why don’t you – [….].Now what would you like? Whiskey? ….”So, this will be a 522 pages long dinner conversation in which the author talks about things he likes to talk about – life, fiction, writing - in what he claims will be his last book. It may not be. He was only 67 when he finished writing this one.If you expect something else (maybe misled by a label in advertisements: “A novel by Martin Amis”) you will, of course, be disappointed. However, if you enjoy this sort of stream-of-consciousness life-writing as well as very stylish language for its own sake done by a master of style, you will like it. I did not even mind having to look up a few words in a dictionary.Amis alternates between talking as himself [“So at twelve-thirty I left the Oxford House ….”] and talking about himself in the third person [“Martin flew to Chicago …”, two pages later].It is not all frivolous dinner-talk either. The final Part V (pp 459 & ff.) of the book tells of the illness and death of Philip Larkin (1985), Saul Bellow (2005) and his coeval and close friend, Christopher Hitchens (2011). The language is factual, non-melodramatic, but moving.He starts the book by commenting on Saul Bellow’s writing (Bellow an admired mentor and friend) and that of Graham Greene, the latter’s religiosity amusingly taken to task. Then fiction starts in Chapter 2. Phoebe Phelps is its main character, recurring throughout the book. In some interviews Amis has claimed that Phoebe Phelps is totally fictional. I have no idea if he is taking it out on some woman or women in his past life. Many events have dates attached to them.The book goes on mixing real-life anecdotes with (pretend?)-fiction, darting in and out of the first and the third person, until the above-mentioned ultimate part, the very personal “Doing the Dying” (p 459). There are (seven?) interruptions given to technical – and useful – advice to writers or would-be writers.As is obvious from other reviews, you will love the book or hate it. I hope this helps you decide before you spend your money.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A wonderful read
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024*

A beautiful, autobiographical novel by a writer I much admire.  After reading this book, I wonder if Martin knew he was dying soon - he passed away in May 2023.I miss the guy - he wrote many books I enjoyed and probably should’ve won a Noble Prize for Literature.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Nobody but Martin Amis could pull this off
  

*by T***W on Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2022*

As one who can't decide which I like more, Martin Amis's novels or his essays, this is the fix. A brilliant concept elegantly executed.  Beyond being engaging, witty, moving, insightful, human, and enlightening, I've rarely seen an author so adept at hosting a reader in a treasured-guest relationship, cover to cover.

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