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Martin Amis was not given the respect he deserved, say writers
Martin Amis died at his home in Florida
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Martin Amis was wrongly spurned by critics in recent years, fellow novelists have said, as friends and politicians paid tribute to the writer who “dominated his generation”.
The author of 15 novels including Money, Time’s Arrow and The Rachel Papers died on Friday aged 73 at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, his wife, Isabel Fonseca, said. He had oesophageal cancer.
Many print and web pages of homage were devoted to Amis yesterday, praising his 50 years of steady literary output. Some, however, noted that much of this praise had been absent during the final decades of his life, when the reviews of his work were often scathing.
Philip Hensher, a novelist and critic, said that Amis’s 21st-century works had been met with a
