Should Martin Amis Hate His Biographer?

style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">In this first biography of Martin Amis, Richard Bradford finds two kinds of parallels â??intriguingâ?, â??fascinatingâ? or, at the very least, â??worth notingâ?. First, there are the resemblances between people Amis has known and the characters in his fiction: former girlfriend Mary Furness for Nicola Six in London Fields, former wife Antonia Phillips for Martina Twain in Money and so on. Then there are the parallels between father and son, Kingsley and Martin, in their writing and their personal lives. Both were in their forties, for example, when they met the women â?? Elizabeth Jane Howard and Isabel Fonseca respectively â?? with whom they would set up homes after their first marriages went belly up.