A review by angus_mckeogh
Inside Story by Martin Amis

5.0

A lot about Amis and his relationship with Hitchens as well as his father and Saul Bellow. Parts were about how to be a novelist, large sections were about the real world and America’s festering boil of a president, Donald Trump, other parts were simply about Amis’s life and his romantic relationships. I was a big fan of the story and was delighted that I agreed with Amis on many topics, and then of course it was suffuse with his erudition. The ills of the United States: racism, health care for profit, the wealth gap and privilege between the poor and the self-styled elite, and the overzealousness of religion and oddly how all those topics are directly cogent to the present. Great read.