An autobiographical novel that's a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die--from "the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction" (The Daily Telegraph). " A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction ... Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps--an obsession...
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