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Money by Martin Amis: 6: I was a mean kid

6: I was a mean kid

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Martin Amis's classic novel that defined eighties excess, read by Bertie Carvel.

After reading the disastrous script for his movie, John Self jets back to London to his errant girlfriend, in Martin Amis's savagely funny novel on 1980s excess.

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

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: reeling from the disastrous script for his movie, John Self jets back to London and his errant 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.

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

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