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Martin Amis · 1995 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Two writers came up together; one now produces unreadable novels that give their few readers headaches, the other has a bestseller of blameless uplift and a house in Holland Park. The failure sets out to hurt the success and hires a career criminal to help, without conspicuous competence on either side. The last of the London trilogy, and as much about the night thoughts of a man turning forty as about literary envy.

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• companion to ↑ London Fields
  Martin Amis · 1989 CE · Novel

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