HOUSE OF MEETINGS
by Martin Amis
Jonathan Cape ₤15.99, 208 pages
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In 2002 Martin Amis published Koba the Dread, a memoir-cum-history of Stalinism. The book closes with a letter to his father’s ghost, in which Amis tries to sum up the difference between his own work and that of Kingsley Amis: “You wrote... about the bourgeoisie in your fiction,” he says, “a category seldom seen in mine, where I make do with the aristocracy, the intelligentsia, the lumpenproletariat, and the urkas.”