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Britain’s top novelist plans to move definitively to New York

The novelist has spent long periods secluded in a Uruguayan resort

Novelist Martin Amis, author of some of Britain’s best known modern literature is fed up with criticisms in Britain, and also on request from his Uruguayan wife is planning to move definitively to the United States.

According to The Sunday Times, the writer is trying to sell the family’s home, next to Regent’s Park in London, at £ 4.5 million, although he is also planning to buy a flat where to stay when he travels to Britain.

Besides, the parents of the novelist’s wife Isabel Fonseca are ageing and she wants to spend more time with them, points out the London newspaper. Mrs. Amis also feels more at home in New York than in London.

The couple also has a house in the exclusive sea resort of Jose Ignacio in Uruguay where they have spent several austral summers.

According to friends the author of “Money”, “London Fields” is increasingly fed up with Britain, particularly because of the hounding by a hostile UK media which allegedly also has a sickly curiosity about his family.

The Sunday Times adds that Amis coincidently is currently writing a new novel, “State of England” which according to the editors among other things reflects the author’s despise towards the British obsession with the “rich and famous” culture.

The Amis-Fonseca couple spent most of the boreal summer in Long Island, New York and meditated about their future. They have many friends in New York, among which Christopher Hitchens, who has cancer and recently published his memoirs. Another friend is Salman Rushdie, who wrote “The Satanic verses” and has spent most of the last ten years living in New York.

Amis latest novel The Pregnant Widow” did not have a good review particularly by feminine critics.

The British press has also interfered in the private life of Amis and criticized he spent part of the advance of half a million pounds for another book, in improving his denture, and which they attributed to the “novelist’s vanity”. A coming book on his biography point out that he suffers of gingivitis.