The novelist’s use of style and voice was feted by critics, with Veronica Geng writing in her New York Times review that Money was “like a tale taken down in a trance by a medium in the grip of a spirit control, one of those prankish controls waxing autobiographical from a spectral barstool”. He added: “The thrill of Money, which is turbocharged with savage humour from first to last page, is Amis’s prodigal delight in contemporary Anglo-American vernacular.” Money, wrote McCrum, was a “a zeitgeist book that remains one of the dominant novels of the 1980s”. His 1984 novel Money was named by Robert McCrum in the Guardian as among the 100 best novels written in English. His wife, Isabel Fonseca, said that the cause was cancer of the oesophagus.Īmis was among the celebrated group of novelists including Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes, whose works defined the British literary scene in the 1980s. Martin Amis, the influential author of era-defining novels including Money and London Fields, and the memoir Experience, has died at the age of 73 at his home at Lake Worth in Florida.
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