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Martin Amis said becoming a grandfather was ‘so uncool’…but he’s now a doting ‘Grandpops’ says his lovechild daughter
By CLAUDIA JOSEPH and ELIZABETH SANDERSON
Last updated at 11:49 PM on 19th June 2010
Perhaps it was inevitable that Martin Amis would make a joke of it. He is a man who has made a career out of pithy one-liners and deliberately provocative points of view.
But his latest preoccupation is not sex or Islam but something far more prosaic. It is the matter of growing old.
Amis turned 60 last year but, as he told an audience at the Hay Festival recently, it was becoming a grandfather that really set him thinking.
‘It’s so uncool,’ he complained. ‘Like getting a telegram from the mortuary.’ His controversial stance made headlines – as he knew it would. But like much about Amis, it ought not to be taken at face value.
Far from finding it ‘uncool’, the author is in fact a devoted grandfather who dotes on his grandson, Isaac.
And when Isaac contracted a potentially fatal infection hours after he was born, it was Amis who spent hours by his hospital bedside stroking the little boy’s tiny forehead. ..Continue reading
