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Money by Martin Amis: 2: Heat, money, sex and fever

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Martin Amis's savagely funny, cult classic novel on eighties excess, read by Bertie Carvel

Martin Amis's electrifying and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self. Read by Bertie Carvel.

Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self, and read by Bertie Carvel.

John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.

But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his dangerously excessive lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.

Today: The indulgences continue as Self jets back and forth between London and New York, juggling the demands of the film with those of his slippery girlfriend Selina...

Writer: Martin Amis 
Reader: Bertie Carvel 
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett

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Amis's defining novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self.

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