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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF AND ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA

Copyright © 2020 by Martin Amis

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2020.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Curtis Brown, Ltd.: Excerpt from “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” and “September 1, 1939” from Another Time by W.H. Auden, copyright © 1940 by W.H. Auden, copyright renewed 1967 by W.H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Faber & Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from “Jerusalem” from Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton, copyright © James Fenton. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.

Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Excerpts from “Aubade,” “Annus Mirabilis,” “This Be the Verse,” “The Trees,” “To the Sea,” “Vers de Société,” “Next, Please,” “Going, Going,” “Love Again,” “High Windows,” “Self’s the Man,” “Dockery and Son,” “The Mower,” and “The View” from The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, copyright © 2012 by The Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Ebook ISBN 9780593318300

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Amis, Martin, author.

Title: Inside story : a novel / Martin Amis.

Description: First American edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020021012 (print) | LCCN 2020021013 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780593318294 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593318300 (ebook)

Subjects: GSAFD: Autobiographical fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6051.M5 I57 2020 (print) | LCC PR6051.M5 (ebook) |

DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020021012

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020021013

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Inside story / Martin Amis.

Names: Amis, Martin, author.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200228269 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200229834 | ISBN 9780735281301 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735281318 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Amis, Martin—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6051.M58 I57 2020 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover photograph by Geraint Lewis /Alamy

Cover design by Chip Kidd

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