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Most novels should be so richly fulfilling.”  \n—The Toronto Star  \n“A balanced, haunting work of memory and memorial, a surprisingly gentle meditation on fathers and sons, mortality, the loss of innocence, divorce, friendship, [and] love .”  \n—Chicago Sun-Times  \n“Striking and satisfying. It’s an edgy and electrifying read.”  \n—NOW  \n“A compassionate book, and a very moving one … a book that’s true to the way memory really works—obsessive, elliptical, incomplete, maddeningly non-linear, but deeply revealing.”  \n—Calgary Herald  \n“Adept .…The true power of [Amis’s] prose is demonstrated …by those sections dealing with the death of his cousin and father .”  \n—The Boston Globe  \nAlso by Martin Amis  \nFICTION  \nThe Rachel Papers  \nDead Babies  \nSuccess  \nOther People  \nMoney  \nEinstein’s Monsters  \nLondon Fields  \nTime ’s Arrow  \nThe Information  \nNight Train Heavy Water and Other Stories  \nNONFICTION  \nInvasion of the Space Invaders The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000  \nMartin Amis  \nEXPERIENCE  \nMartin Amis’s books include Money, Dead Babies, The Rachel Papers, The Moronic Inferno, Einstein ’s Monsters, London Fields, Time ’s Arrow, The Information, Night Train, Heavy Water and Other Stories, and The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000 . He lives in London .  \nVINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2001  \nCopyright © 2000 by Martin Amis  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, in 2001. First published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, in 2000. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.  \nVintage Canada and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House of Canada Limited.  \nCanadian Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nAmis, Martin, 1949–  \nExperience : a memoir  \neISBN: 978-0-307-36825-6  \n1. Amis, Martin, 1949– . 2. Amis, Kingsley—Family. 3. Novelists, English—20th century—Biography. I. 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