Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London. Other significant figures competing as Martin's main influencers are his father, Kingsley, his hero Saul Bellow, the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin, and literary women from Iris Murdoch to Elizabeth Jane Howard. Along the way, he surveys the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to be a writer-- Provided by publisher.
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