Martin Louis Amis died at his home in Florida of esophageal cancer, the New York Times reports citing his wife, writer Isabel Fonseca.


Son of art (his father Kingsley was the author of more than twenty novels, as well as collections of poems and essays), he is best known for The Rachel dossier (1973), Money (1984), London Territories (1989) and The Arrow of Time (1991) for which he was nominated for the Booker Prize and which remains in the history of literature for innovative technique: The time of narration, in fact, flows backwards.


His works are permeated with sarcasm and mainly target what the author considers the absurdity and injustice of "late-capitalist" Western society, so much so that the New York Times has spoken of him as the master of the "new unpleasantness".


The author, originally from Oxford, was until 2011 Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.