Lionel Asbo: State of England - Rilegato

Amis, Martin

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ISBN 10: 0307402118 ISBN 13: 9780307402110

Casa editrice: Knopf Canada, 2012

Riassunto

A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. 

Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine . . . He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love (and to protect a family secret that could be the death of him). But just as he begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, his uncle—once again in a London prison—wins £140 million in the lottery and upon his release hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and “poet.”  Strangely, however, Lionel's true nature remains uncompromised while his problems, and therefore also Desmond's, seem only to multiply.

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
“Lionel Asbo crackles with brilliant prose and scathing satire [and is] savagely funny.... Hilarious and strangely compelling—a gleefully twisted Great Expectations. . . . Amis adopts a big, playful storytelling voice in this book. He riffs like a jazz master, in and out of vernacular, with brief gusts of description, all driven by a tight bass line of suspense.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“The novel is full of Amis’s trademark virtuoso prose and wit. He’s a master of capturing a voice on the page.... Writing of a high order: technically brilliant, dazzling in style, manic in energy and drive by a narrative momentum impossible to resist.”
—Michel Basilières, Toronto Star
 
“[Amis] is the most original sentence-writer in English.... There may be no better paragraph writer in the language, either.... A ripper of a story.”
—Charles Foran, The Globe and Mail
 
“Clever and ignorant and topical and sad and cruel and ridiculous and breathtaking.... Let’s give thanks that Martin Amis was bad enough and brave enough to write it.”
—Nicola Barker, The Guardian

“A satire on modern Britain and its tawdry, celebrity culture.”
—Irish Independent
 
“A literary treat.... Martin Amis looks to be playing to his strengths.... A satire on the scummy state of Britain.”
—Evening Standard
 
“Among the plump targets of this dark satirist are the British press and a society in thrall to sex and money. Sounds like we’re in for a straight shot of 100-proof Amis.”
—The Millions
 
“A savage anatomization of contemporary culture.” 
—The Guardian

L'autore:

Martin Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six of nonfiction, most recently The Second Plane. He lives in Brooklyn.

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• Editore: Knopf Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0307402118
• ISBN 13: 9780307402110
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272