The pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, Martin Amis's pyrotechnic prose captured life's destructive energies
- Written by: Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Martin Amis pictured at home in 2012.Bebeto Matthews/APMartin 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...