Success

by Martin Amis
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'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer

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Gregory Riding and Terry Service, foster brothers who loathe each other, are the central characters in Martin Amis's pungent novel, originally published in England in 1978. For Gregory, London is a gilded galaxy, an endless whirl of smart parties, tony art galleries, and easy conquests. Terry's life is altogether more squalid, marred by a history of nagging sexual failures and missed opportunities. Inexplicably, Success suddenly smiles on Terry as Gregory plunges to subterranean depths. But it is Gregory's story that most engages the reader's sympathy. In this unusual novel Amis provides a verbal feast for connoisseurs of fine writing; the prose is at times dazzling. But beneath the surface brilliance lies a serious exploration of contemporary life and morals.

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The Random Blog is the official blog for Random House Australia's authors. Each month four of our authors get a week to blog about anything and everything! Random House Australia (RHA) is part of the Random House Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the world, owned by the German media company Bertelsmann AG. Carl Bertelsmann established his company in 1835, and early publications included...

Editorial Reviews

"A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust" - Observer

"Beautifully constructed to make a coherent, powerful and still fairly unusual statement about changing English society" - Evening Standard

"An instantly recognizable voice, penetrating, loquacious, slightly hysterical, upsetting, rising above the basso pseudo-profundo babble of his competitors like filed fingernails scraping down glass-Martin Amis is a dazzling phrasemaker" - Sunday Times

"Amis pulls off his literary feat with panache" - James Buchan, Spectator

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