One for the road
Ian Hamilton, 21 March 1991
“... some thing to do with Charles of that name, we conjecture, or perhaps it was Henry, C’s black-sheep brother, a figure whose curriculum vitae reads very like some of those that Amis has in store for us: pissed all the time, terrific sponger, no good at writing novels, and so on.) We are, however, vouchsafed a glimpse or two of Amis’s mother and ... ”