British writer Martin Amis died this Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, USA. The writer was 73 years old and was battling esophageal cancer. The information was provided by a woman, also a writer, Isabelle Fonseca.
Martin Amis marked the 1980s with his literary works, notable among them O Dineiro (1984) and London Fields (1989). Critics praised the poignant, gripping and dark writing style.
The book “O Dinheiro” was reviewed by Roberto McCrum, from The keeper, as one of the hundred best novels ever written in English. The story follows a man, John Self, who is a reflection of greed, in the golden days of capitalism.
Martin Amis was born in 1949 in Oxford, UK. He attended British, Spanish and American schools before returning to Oxford to study English.
The writer said that it was his stepmother, writer Elizabeth Jane Howard, who aroused his interest in literature when he was still a teenager. “She gave me a reading list and an hour later I knocked on her office door and said, ‘I need to know: Is Elizabeth marrying Darcy?’ The keeper.
During his life, Martin Amis published 15 novels. Today he is considered one of the most controversial authors, whose stories are rooted in the absurdity of the postmodern state and the excesses of late capitalism in Western societies.
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