Capital Punishment
Martin Amis’s prison of Money
Troy Patterson

Money:
A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink)
by Martin Amis
Penguin (Non-Classics)
$15.00 List Price
CRUELLY LUCID, VIRTUOSIC in weighing morality with a composed sneer, Martin Amis’s fifth novel, Money: A Suicide Note (1984), stands as the first full expression of his art. His latest book, Lionel Asbo, which will be published this August, reads as Money’s thematic sequel. A portrait of an underclass thug who wins the lottery, Asbo amplifies the earlier novel’s hyperbolic farce. Amis published Money as a London resident
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