"Experience" - Martin Amis (2001)

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"In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death.

Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's most prolific serial murderers."

The above from the Amazon synopsis. I like Martin Amis (and the book) for his brutal, revelatory honesty. He gets a hard time from sections of the press, being out of tune with a feminised air du temps.

On the other hand ..

"On election night in the US, he and his wife anticipated a win for Hillary Clinton, and were “rubbing our hands together over the size of the landslide”. The next day, he was put in mind of something Sebastian Haffner, the German historian, said after Hitler came in. “He said the feeling was not of horror; it was of complete unreality. You go out into the street and people look different. The commerce, the cars; it all looks staged for your benefit. Completely make-believe. A sick-making feeling. And here it is. And what the fuck did they expect?”