Vale: Famous English Novelist Martin Amis

Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle.

Amis captured the contemporary world’s sinister, destructive energies in a savage and glittering serie…