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Frida Ghitis: For many writers who came of age in the 1990s, Martin Amis was the standard for authorhood.
She says he was the avatar of a worldview that took literature, the making of it and the arguing about it seriously seriously.
Ghitis says Amis wrote big, era-defining novels that mattered.
Wylie put the novel up at auction and eventually sold it to HarperCollins UK, along with a future collection of stories, for a reported 505,000.
In January, Julian Barnes wrote Amis a breakup letter that ended “Fuck off.” In fact Amis was indeed having extensive dental work done, later described in gruesome detail in his memoir Experience.
It felt, to me, like the exact sort of novel worth this kind of brouhaha, the public pillorying, even the loss of a friend.
Even as I believe less and less in the author as a figure of envy, of fury, of magisterial invention, I’ll never quite shake it off.
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