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. Meanwhile, Gregory's 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 when Success swivels her capricious gaze roles are reversed with and the Riding brothers find their lives dramatically changed.
'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' - Spectator
'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' - Observer
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About Martin Amis
Martin Amis is the author of ten novels, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in London.
