- Fiction, Television producers and directors, Motion picture producers and directors, British
An anti-hero to beat them all, John Self is a dissipated connoisseur of self-gratification. Addicted to porn, fast-food and money, he lives a culture-less high-life in New York and London, groping his way through a world of all-day hangovers, barely remembered debaucheries and desires that are both pointless and insatiable.
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Contemporary, cool, comic and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Martin Amis
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 394
- Publisher
- Vintage Classic, Jonathan Cape, Zsolnay
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Spanish, Dutch, Russian, tur
- ISBN
- 9782070420414
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Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels *Money* (1984) and *London Fields* (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir *Experience* and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for *Time's Arrow* and longlisted in 2003 for *Yellow Dog).* Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, *The Times* named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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