Description
Martin Amis's satirical, formally inventive novel—following two lifelong friends whose rivalry deepens into something considerably more dangerous as middle age exposes the gap between their ambitions and their achievements—is one of the most technically daring and most thematically rich works in his extraordinary body of fiction. Written with the verbal density, the dark comedy, and the complete commitment to taking literature's formal possibilities seriously that have made him one of the most important British novelists of his generation, this is essential reading for every admirer of Amis's challenging, rewarding work. A significant novel.
