Success

Success

by Martin Amis (Author), Martin Amis (Author)

Synopsis

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief, burdened by an unmentionable past and the unlikelihood of ever having a good time in bed. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed, when Success swivels her capricious gaze.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published:

ISBN 10: 0099461854
ISBN 13: 9780099461852
Book Overview: 'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.