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Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink) Paperback - 2010

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Author: Amis, Martin
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by Martin Amis; Bert Krak (Illustrator)

Hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (The New Republic) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (The Times Literary Supplement) when it made its first appearance in the mid-1980s, Money is Martin Amis's hilarious portrait of one man's relentless pursuit of pleasure.

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Summary

One of Time’s 100 best novels in the English language—by the acclaimed author of Lionel Asbo: State of England and London Fields

Part of Martin Amis’s “London Trilogy,” along with the novel London Fields and The Information, Money was hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (The New Republic) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (The Times Literary Supplement) when it made its first appearance in the mid-1980s. Amis’s shocking, funny, and on-target portraits of life in the fast lane form a bold and frightening portrait of Ronald Reagan’s America and Margaret Thatcher’s England.

Money is the hilarious story of John Self, one of London’s top commercial directors, who is given the opportunity to make his first feature film—alternately titled Good Money and Bad Money. He is also living money, talking money, and spending money in his relentless pursuit of pleasure and success. As he attempts to navigate his hedonistic world of drinking, sex, drugs, and excessive quantities of fast food, Self is sucked into a wretched spiral of degeneracy that is increasingly difficult to surface from.

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One of Time's 100 best novels in the English language--by the acclaimed author of Lionel Asbo: State of England and London Fields

Part of Martin Amis's "London Trilogy," along with the novel London Fields and The Information, Money was hailed as "a sprawling, fierce, vulgar display" (The New Republic) and "exhilarating, skillful, savvy" (The Times Literary Supplement) when it made its first appearance in the mid-1980s. Amis's shocking, funny, and on-target portraits of life in the fast lane form a bold and frightening portrait of Ronald Reagan's America and Margaret Thatcher's England.

Money is the hilarious story of John Self, one of London's top commercial directors, who is given the opportunity to make his first feature film--alternately titled Good Money and Bad Money. He is also living money, talking money, and spending money in his relentless pursuit of pleasure and success. As he attempts to navigate his hedonistic world of drinking, sex, drugs, and excessive quantities of fast food, Self is sucked into a wretched spiral of degeneracy that is increasingly difficult to surface from.

Details

Title Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink)
Author Martin Amis; Bert Krak (Illustrator)
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 368
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date 2010-06-29
ISBN 9780143116950 / 0143116959
Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
Dimensions 7.66 x 5.26 x 0.98 in (19.46 x 13.36 x 2.49 cm)
Ages 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Humorous fiction
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock.”

—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

About the author

Martin Amis is the author of 13 novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories, and six nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Bert Krak is a celebrated New York tattoo artist, known for his heavy lines and unique color palette. He owns and operates the Smith Street Tattoo Parlour in Brooklyn. He is also a painter, who works mainly with watercolors and liquid acrylics.