It never seems to occur to Bertie that he and his friends might reinvent or surpass their parents ' achievements ; the potent examples of John Huston -LRB- father : Walter Huston -RRB- , Jean Renoir -LRB- father : Pierre-Auguste Renoir -RRB- , Martin Amis -LRB- father : Kingsley Amis -RRB- and Norah Jones -LRB- father : Ravi Shankar -RRB- elude them .