The Dreadnought

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Martin Amis, 1949-2023

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Martin Amis (R) with Saul Bellow

“BOOKS ARE PARTLY ABOUT life, and partly about other books,” the writer Martin Amis declared, appraising what he considered to be the Great American Novel: Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. “Some books are largely about other books, and spawn yet other books,” he continued, but Bellow’s opus “is all about life:…

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