![]() ![]() There was the springy, comic prose, and the interest in sex and the opposite of sex. It’s such a rangy, well-travelled, big-cocked name, and to look at I am none of these things”). There was the post-Dickensian naming of characters (“My name is Charles Highway, though you wouldn’t think it to look at me. In his debut there were elements that would never leave Amis. But his debut, The Rachel Papers, published in 1973 when Amis was 24 years old, showed that Amis had the talent to support the promise, and its sales and acclaim (it won the Somerset Maugham prize, the first and last major prize Amis would win for his novels) proved he had the ear of a generation. It’s true, Amis accepted, that “however bad” his first novel had been, “it probably would have been published out of mercenary curiosity”. ![]() ![]() Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis at the Guildhall in London for the 1991 Booker prize awards. ![]()
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