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Gregory's life is a series of effortless conquests. Sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his bed. His foster-brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he pursues his own existence of squalid mediocrity. But roles are reversed.
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"Beautifully constructed to make a coherent, powerful and still fairly unusual statement about changing English society" (Evening Standard)
"An instantly recognizable voice, penetrating, loquacious, slightly hysterical, upsetting, rising above the basso pseudo-profundo babble of his competitors like filed fingernails scraping down glass - Martin Amis is a dazzling phrasemaker" (Sunday Times)
"Amis pulls off his literary feat with panache" (James Buchan Spectator)
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"An instantly recognizable voice, penetrating, loquacious, slightly hysterical, upsetting, rising above the basso pseudo-profundo babble of his competitors like filed fingernails scraping down glass - Martin Amis is a dazzling phrasemaker" (Sunday Times)
"Amis pulls off his literary feat with panache" (James Buchan Spectator)
'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0140069992
- ISBN 13 9780140069990
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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