Martin Amis' Inside Story
Let’s start with a boring, but necessary, discussion of the category Martin Amis’ Inside Story should be slotted into. Proferred as a novel by its author, the reader has to constantly negotiate what to accept as fiction, and what to believe as fact. Creative fiction is the usual category for this, but that designation often allows for a rather liberal use of fiction over fact, and can even take off from real events to imaginative leaps that happily align with the fantastical, and even the surrealistic. There’s no such similarity between that type of book and this door stopper.