A new reissue series of Martin Amis's novels to mark his 70th birthday
Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.
John (``Slick'') Self, 35, is the hero of Amis's fifth novel. He directs bosomy fast-food commercials, drives a purple Fiasco, has several very different lovers and travels frequently between London, New York and Los Angeles. Among the many laughable weirdos Amis introduces, only the verbally hyperventilating Slick seems credible. PW commented: ``Though it sprawls a bit, Money achieves a roiling, raunchy idiom that is exuberantly tuned to a contemporary beat, consummately literate and fun to read.'' (March)
Amis is still the finest English fiction writer of his generation *
Sunday Independent *
An electrifying writer who likes to shock his fans and share his
sharply contemporary concerns... Amis is a maddening master you
need to read - the best of his generation * Mail on Sunday *
Amis is immaculate as a comic stylist...irresistible * Daily
Telegraph *
His eloquently rendered inner life shows a richness and tenderness
* The Week *
A comic opera of excess and humiliation, driven by the punch and
panache of Amis's extraordinary prose, Money remains as
satirically spot-on as when it was first published * The List *
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