Authors: Martin Amis
ISBN-13: 9780140088915, ISBN-10: 0140088911
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: March 1986
Edition: REPRINT
Martin Amis carried the nickname of enfante terrible of British literature far past his youthful debut at 24. His novels focus on excesses -- drugs, sex, money -- prompting Christopher Buckley to note in The New York Times in 1995 that his terrain is the junkyard of the human psyche and Mr. Amis is his generation s top literary dog.
The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money and the disasters it can precipitate.
"Engaging and hillirious...the prose is wild and precise at the same time, funny and encouraging." -- Boston Globe