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Hilary Kilmarnock, Lady Kilmarnock (21 July 1928 – 24 June 2010), known as Hilly, was the first wife of Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis. When her third husband, Alistair Boyd, became Chief of Clan Boyd and 7th Baron Kilmarnock, she became Lady Kilmarnock.
24 de jun. de 2010 · Hilary Kilmarnock, Lady Kilmarnock, known as Hilly, was the first wife of Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis. When her third husband, Alistair Boyd, became Chief of Clan Boyd and 7th Baron Kilmarnock, she became Lady Kilmarnock.
Hilly Kilmarnock, who has died aged 81, was the first wife of the novelist Sir Kingsley Amis; their son Martin also became a hugely successful author.
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Amis was born on 25 August 1949 at Radcliffe Maternity Hospital in Oxford, England. His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.[n 1] He had an elder brother, Ph...
According to Amis, his father was deeply critical of certain aspects of his work. "I can point out the exact place where he stopped [reading Amis's novel Money] and sent it twirling through the air; that's where the character named Martin Amis comes in." Kingsley complained: "Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to...
1980s and 1990s
Amis's best-known novels are Money, London Fields and The Information, commonly referred to as his "London Trilogy". Although the books share little in terms of plot and narrative, they all examine the lives of middle-aged men, exploring the sordid, debauched, and post-apocalyptic undercurrents of life in late 20th-century Britain. Amis's London protagonists are anti-heroes: they engage in questionable behaviour, are passionate iconoclasts, and strive to escape the apparent banality and futil...
2000s
The 2000s were Amis's least productive decade in terms of full-length fiction since starting in the 1970s (two novels in ten years), while his non-fiction work saw a dramatic increase in volume (three published works including a memoir, a hybrid of semi-memoir and amateur political history, and another journalism collection). In 2000, Amis published the memoir Experience, largely concerned with the relationship between the author and his father, the novelist Kingsley Amis. Amis describes his...
2010s and 2020s
In 2010, after a period of writing, rewriting, editing, and revision dating back to 2003, "by far the longest writing-time of all [his] books", Amis published The Pregnant Widow, a long novel concerned with the sexual revolution. Its title is based on a quote from Alexander Herzen: "The death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that what the departing world leaves behind it is not an heir but a pregnant widow. Bet...
Amis married the American academic Antonia Phillips in 1984 and they had two sons together. Towards the end of that marriage, he met the writer Isabel Fonseca, whom he married in 1996; together they had two daughters. He became a grandfather in 2008;he later described his new status as "like getting a telegram from the mortuary". From 2004 to 2006,...
Writing
On writing, Amis said in 2014: "I think of writing as more mysterious as I get older, not less mysterious. The whole process is very weird ... It is very spooky." Interviewed by Sebastian Faulks on BBC television in 2011, he said that unless he sustained a brain injury, it was unlikely he would write a children's book: "The idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable ... I wo...
Nuclear proliferation
Through the 1980s and 1990s, Amis was a strong critic of nuclear proliferation. His collection of five stories on this theme, Einstein's Monsters, began with a long essay entitled "Thinkability" in which he set out his views on the issue, writing: "Nuclear weaponsrepel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought."
Geopolitics
In comments on the BBC in October 2006, Amis expressed his view that North Korea was the more dangerous of the two remaining members of the Axis of Evil, but that Iran was Britain's "natural enemy", suggesting that Britain should not feel bad about having "helped Iraq scrape a draw with Iran" in the Iran–Iraq Warbecause a "revolutionary and rampant Iran would have been a much more destabilising presence".
Novels
Amis published a total of 15 novels: 1. The Rachel Papers (1973: ISBN 9780224009126) 2. Dead Babies (1975: ISBN 9780224011679) 3. Success (1978: ISBN 9780224015714) 4. Other People (1981: ISBN 9780224017664) 5. Money (1984: ISBN 9780099461883) 6. London Fields (1989: ISBN 9780224026093) 7. Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offence (1991: ISBN 9780670843664) 8. The Information (1995: ISBN 9780002253567) 9. Night Train (1997: ISBN 9780224050180) 10. Yellow Dog (2003: ISBN 9780224050616) 11. Ho...
Short fiction collections
1. Einstein's Monsters (1987: ISBN 9780099768913) 2. Two Stories (1994: ISBN 9781898154044; both later collected in Heavy Water and Other Stories) 3. God's Dice (1995: ISBN 9780146000546; two stories reprinted from Einstein's Monsters, part of the Penguin 60sseries) 4. Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998: ISBN 9780609601297)
Non-fiction books
1. Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982: ISBN 9780458953509) 2. The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986: ISBN 9780670814329) 3. Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993: ISBN 9780224038249) 4. Experience (2000: ISBN 9780224061254) 5. The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971–2000 (2001: ISBN 9780099422228) 6. Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2002: ISBN 9780786868766) 7. The Second Plane (2008: ISBN 9780099488699) 8. The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov...
Bentley, Nick (2015). Martin Amis (Writers and Their Work). Liverpool University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7463-1178-3.Diedrick, James (2004). Understanding Martin Amis (Understanding Contemporary British Literature). University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-516-6.Keulks, Gavin (2003). Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel Since 1950. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-19210-5.Keulks, Gavin (2006). Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230008304.The Martin Amis Web Archived 19 January 2008 at the Wayback MachineMartin Amis at British Council: Literature7 de jul. de 2010 · A SAD day for letters as Hilary Kilmarnock, mother of Martin Amis and former wife of the late Lucky Jim author Kingsley Amis, has died aged 81. Kilmarnock, who was married three times and had four children, was born Hilary Bardwell, and known throughout her life as Hilly.
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