Michiko Kakutani

Martin Amis's brilliant memoir "Experience" - a book that fuses his humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth, an autobiography that is both a loving tribute to his father Kingsley, and a fulfillment of his own abundant talents as a writer

...an uproarious epic, at once funny and sad, about misplaced identities and family secrets.... Mr. Eugenides has a keen sociological eye for 20th-century American life.... But it's his emotional wisdom, his nuanced insight into his characters' inner lives, that lends this book its cumulative power.