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In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry.
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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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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0224015710
- ISBN 13 9780224015714
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Robert Risko (illustrator). 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "According to Amis, his father showed no interest in his work. "I can point out the exact place where he stopped and sent Money twirling through the air; that's where the character named Martin Amis comes in." "Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself," Kingsley complained. His first novel The Rachel Papers (1973) written at Lemmons, the family home in north London won the Somerset Maugham Award. The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager (which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university." (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A46189
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