Is Other People more of a mystery than the author intended? I present the evidence that Mary is dead, is in hell, or is in a life loop with a chance of redemption. Plus Amis's further thoughts on literature and life, and the emergence of the mature Amis style.


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Books that matter review of Other People


"Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields," from Critique 37 (1995). By Brian Finney, California State University, Long Beach.

In Camera (No Exit) 1964


Craig Raine “A Martian sends a postcard home”


Allusions to Larkin in Amis’s work