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