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Martin Amis Martin Amis

Martin Amis’s latest, Lionel Asbo: A Novel (Knopf, $25.95), features a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug, named after England’s notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order. 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.” “With crisp insights, rollicking storytelling and acrobatic wit, Amis has created a peppery, topsy-turvy Pygmalion fable and hilarious dismantlement of our cherished rags-to-riches fantasy.” —Kansas City Star.  Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six of nonfiction, most recently The Second Plane.

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