In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.
Martin Amis, whose caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels redefined British fiction in the 1980s and ’90s, died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. He was 73.
Amis harnessed a rapier wit to a Swiftian eye, a sharp ear, a peerless facility for linguistic construction and the imagination to create a world entirely his…