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Google News: Martin Amis (The Bat Segundo Show)
[Reluctant Habits] - And then it gets into outright topographical territory with John Self's Upper West Side. And then it's become less tangible in these more recent books. It's more observational or reflective in some sense. And let me give you some specific examples. I
Martin Amis's blighted Blighty
www.theglobeandmail.com
[Globe and Mail] - The eponymous Lionel Asbo is an Amis yob of the highest – or rather lowest – order, a worthy addition to the police blotter of Keith Talent and Clint Smoker, the unassailable John Self of Money. The time is the present “state of England” and the place
'Lionel Asbo: State of England' by Martin Amis
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[New York Times] - More than two and a half decades later that novel's scabrous vision of a crude, rude world reeling from narcissism and acquisitiveness seems as potent as ever. Its hilariously awful hero, John Self, is an uncanny harbinger of the willful vulgarians who
Guardian: The 100 best novels: No 93 – Money: A Suicide Note by ...
Martin Amis’s era-defining ode to excess unleashed one of literature’s greatest modern monsters in self-destructive antihero John Self
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