Adam Mars-Jones
Author of The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis
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Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and The Salutation [New York Review Classics edition] (2001) — Introduction, some editions — 220 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1954-10-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Virginia, USA - Education
- Westminster School, London, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Virginia - Occupations
- Professor (University of Virginia ∙ Creative Writing)
film critic - Awards and honors
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1993) - Agent
- PFD, Drury House
- Short biography
- Writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones was born in London in 1954. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he studied and then taught Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. He was film critic for The Independent between 1986 and 1997 and for The Times between 1998 and 2000.
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Although the relationship between Ray and Colin is clearly very unequal and exploitative, and it doesn't end happily, when it ends it does, counterintuitively, leave Colin more at ease with who he is and what he wants out of life. He is in a position to build a new, happy life for himself. This in contrast to Colin's father, whose similarly dependent relationship with Colin's mother drives him into a spiral of mental breakdown.
Fun because of all the nice period detail about bikers and sex in the seventies, before everyone got hung up on motorcycle safety and AIDS, but the plot felt a bit facile.… (more)