Martin Amis: a new chapter in America

When Martin Amis moved to New York it gave rise to reports that he loathed England. Not so. His new novel is, he says, no "V sign" to Britain…It was death that urged Martin Amis to America – though not, as reported in parts, some sort of death of the England left behind."My mother died the year before last, and we were thinking about that," says the novelist, 62, waistcoated, meeting the evening with a bottle of beer in his home in Brooklyn, New York. "My mother-in-law [a Brooklyn resident] ...

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