RaveSalonIn Experience, he reflects upon all these dramas, but the book isn\'t the tabloid tell-all the British press seemed to be hoping for. Rather, it\'s a balanced, haunting work of memory and memorial, a surprisingly gentle meditation on fathers and sons, mortality, the loss of innocence, divorce, friendship, love -- what Amis calls \'the main events,\' those \'ordinary miracles and ordinary disasters\' that shape you and define you and remain forever in your blood and being. No doubt critics will hail this intensely private evocation of a very public life as the arrival of a kinder Martin Amis ... Part fascinating literary memoir, part raw catharsis, Experience also represents a universal phenomenon: a son\'s attempt to understand his father and to make sense of his death.
Colson Whitehead
RaveThe San Francisco Chronicle... marks the arrival of a dazzling new voice in American fiction. Original, smart, magical -- Whitehead\'s achievement ranks alongside Catch-22,V.The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels. And the comparison to these three books is apt: Whitehead shares Heller\'s sense of the absurd, Pynchon\'s operatic expansiveness and Morrison\'s deconstruction of race and racism ... There are no false notes, no sophomoric stumbles or indulgences. Just lucid, infectious writing, compelling characters and situations, even-handed social commentary and a gripping story ... Whitehead is the real thing: a writer of humor, imaginative prowess and fierce intelligence who understands both the highbrow novel of ideas and the lowbrow novel of suspense ... Most impressive of all, Whitehead creates a completely believable fictional universe that\'s frighteningly familiar yet also slightly surreal and otherworldly ... Whitehead has emerged as one of the most promising novelists of his generation.
