Money

Martin Amis · 1984 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

John Self, a director of television commercials with an appetite for everything, shuttles between London and New York to make his first feature film. He spends the book eating, drinking, watching pornography and being handled by people who understand the deal better than he does. The eighties as binge.

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• influenced by ↑ Lolita
  Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 CE · Novel
• alludes to ↑ Othello
  William Shakespeare · c. 1604 CE · Play
• ↓ London Fields
  Martin Amis · 1989 CE · Novel — companion to this

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• Lady Oracle
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• The Alchemist
  Ben Jonson · 1610 CE · Play

  55% · 13 shared
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• London Fields
  Martin Amis · 1989 CE · Novel

  52% · 15 shared
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