16. "I must say I find them pretty difficult to get on with . . . It's his style. I can't get to the end of a paragraph. It's too ornate." Quoted in Charles Michener, "Britain's Brat of Letters," Esquire 108 (January 1987): 110. See chapter 1 for a discussion of Amis's "anxiety of influence" in relation to his father's career.
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