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Martin Amis's "House of Meetings"
ResumeSon of the famed writer Kingsley Amis - bad boy, playboy and snob in the London tabloids - for Martin Amis, writes The Observer - publication day for a new novel is "a carnivorous and gleeful public carnival: the bastards (reviewers) all want your guts for garters."
Some days they've had them, some days they haven't. His latest novel, "House of Meetings" - the story of a heart-breaking love triangle played out in a Soviet slave-labor camp - is getting hosannahs. And Amis is still at full sail - on Islam, America, feminism, snobbery.
This hour On Point: a conversation with the unflinching novelist, Martin Amis.
Guests:
Martin Amis, author of the new book "House of Meetings." His previous books include "London Fields," "Night Train," and "The Rachel Papers."
This program aired on January 31, 2007.