MONEY - A SUICIDE NOTE
John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.
Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.
But John's excesses haven't gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his high-wire, hoggish lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.
'Terribly, terminally funny: laughter in the dark, if ever I heard it' Guardian
MARTIN AMIS
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers 1973 . Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
AMIS MARTIN
Martin Amis fue autor de catorce novelas, dos colecciones de cuentos y ocho obras de no ficción. Su novela Time's Arrow fue preseleccionada para el Premio Booker, por el cual su posterior novela Yellow Dog también fue preseleccionada, y sus memorias Experience ganaron el Premio James Tait Black Memorial. En 2008, The Times lo nombró uno de los 50 mejores escritores desde 1945. Amis murió en mayo de 2023.
