
Inside Story
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Narrated by:
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Alex Jennings
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By:
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Martin Amis
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
This extraordinary novel gives the listener the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic.
His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life, as a man and a writer. This novel had its birth in a death - that of the author's closest friend, Christopher Hitchens. We also encounter the vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis, from his father Kingsley, to his hero Saul Bellow, from Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and to the person who captivated his 20s, the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps.
What begins as a thrilling tale of romantic entanglements, family and friendship evolves into a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve and how to die? In his search for answers, Amis surveys the great horrors of the 20th century and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the 21st - and shares all he has learned on how to write.
The result is one of Amis' greatest achievements: a love letter to life that is at once exuberant, meditative, heartbreaking and ebullient, to be savoured and cherished for many years to come.
©2020 Martin Amis (P)2020 Penguin AudioGreat story telling
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If you don't, you might not. So read or listen to some of the work first to decide.
As a lover of Amis...I loved it
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Extraordinary
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Great narration. Terrible narrator on other books
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Jennings is a perfect narrator, his feel for language, rhythm, and pacing were flawless.
Amis at his best
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I enjoyed his thumbnails of people like Elizabeth Jane Howard but at times I had to skip his lessons in grammar and word placement. By the end I was skipping rather large tracts.
A self-satisfied writer
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