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A Review of the Free Sample of "Inside Story" by Martin Amis

A Review of the Free Sample of "Inside Story" by Martin Amis

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Sep 25, 2020
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There's a great line in one of the review's collected in Martin Amis' book The War Against Cliché where he describes himself, as a young critic, as “lamb dressed as mutton”: a naïve young man and artist trying to prove himself with excessive hostility.

I suppose that I was looking forward to Amis' Inside Story in much the same spirit. An autobiographical…

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