Money
Martin Amis · 1949–2023 · England
Why it matters
A self-destructive advertising director burns through appetite, pornography, and greed on a transatlantic bender that never quite ends. Amis's savage comic style made 1980s excess its own kind of literature.
At a glance
satirepicaresque
Difficulty 6/10fast pace384 pagesManic first-person voice, dense wordplay, and a self-referential authorial cameo.
Deep dive
An advertising man's champagne-and-pornography bender across London and New York, narrated by a mind almost too addled to trust — complicated further by a novelist named Martin Amis, who appears inside the story to watch him with open suspicion.
