Inside story /

"From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is wit...

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Main Author: Amis, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Edition:First United States edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (Title page verso) index. 
505 0 0 |t Preludial --  |t Ethics and morals... The American eagle --  |t Guideline: Things fiction can't do --  |t Phoebe: the business... So I went round there --  |t Guideline: The novel moves on --  |t Jerusalem... Bitter furies of complexity --  |t Guideline: Literature and violence --  |t The night of shame... She's scaring me, Hitch --  |t Transitional: The sources of the being --  |t France in the time of Iraq 1: Anti:américain --  |t September 11 (1): The day after --  |t September 11 (2): The day before the day after --  |t September 11 (3): The days after the day after --  |t France in the time of Iraq 2: Shock and awe --  |t Interludial: Memos to my reader, and 'Oktober' --  |t The shadow-line... Nobodaddy --  |t Hitchens goes to Houston... He's an ox --  |t Politics and the bedroom... Not left wing enough --  |t Hitchens stays on in Houston... The synchrotron --  |t And say why it never worked for me... Invidia --  |t Preamble: The fire on New Year's Eve --  |t Christopher: Everyone pray for Hitchens Day --  |t How to write: The mind's ear --  |t Saul: Idlewild --  |t How to write: Decorum --  |t Philip: The love of his life --  |t How to write: Impersonal forces --  |t Beelzebub --  |t How to write: The uses of variety --  |t London: Phoebe at seventy-five --  |t 'It seemed that out of battle I escaped' --  |t The poet: December 1985 --  |t The novelist: April 2005 --  |t The essayist: December 2011 --  |t Postludial --  |t Afterthought: Masada and the Dead Sea --  |t Addendum: Elizabeth Jane Howard. 
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