Named one ofTimes 100 best novels in the English language,Moneyis savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock (The Washington Post).
Including a new introduction by Lorrie Moore, author ofI Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Originally published in 1984, Martin Amiss classic novelMoneyis a searing critique of late-stage capitalism that remains a poignant and relevant commentary on the trappings of materialism and the illusions of success.
Money is everything. Especially to John Self, a successful commercial director from London. He spends his days steeped in booze and pornography and prostitutes, lost in the hedonistic lifestyle of his peers.
But John has bigger dreams, and he sets off for America on the invitation of the filmmaker Fielding Goodney in the hope of getting his first feature film, titledGood Money, off the ground. It is in America where John must contend with his degenerative proclivities, or risk the life hes built.
Moneyis Martin Amis at his very best: a hilarious, razor-sharp, and wholly singular storyteller.
Martin Amis(19492023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them
Money,
London Fields,
and
The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir
Experience.
As a messy, bitter, split-open capsule of 80s celebrity and consumption,
Moneyis priceless.
Alexandra Jacobs,The New York Times
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