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A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behavior Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls, Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love--and to protect a family secret that could be the death of him. But 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." Strangely, however, Lionel's true nature remains uncompromised while his problems, and therefore also Desmond's, seem only to multiply.
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Martin Amis is the author of many novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of fiction stories, and several of nonfiction. He lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for Lionel Asbo:
"[Amis] reads like a university don telling dirty jokes to astonish the groundlings while never letting them forget how well he knows his Milton."
—The Wall Street Journal
"[Lionel Asbo is] tender, almost earnest, in its emotions.... A ripper of a story, in the Dickens mode. There is even a happy ending."
—Charles Foran, The Globe and Mail
"Savagely funny.... Crackling with brilliant prose and scathing style, this novel plays like a gleefully twisted Great Expectations. Trust us, you don't want to miss this playful and suspenseful book--it's Amis at his best."
—Publishers Weekly
"An acidic satire on contemporary England by one of that country's most controversial and caustic wits."
—Edmonton Journal
"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."
—The Kansas City Star
"[Amis] reads like a university don telling dirty jokes to astonish the groundlings while never letting them forget how well he knows his Milton."
—The Wall Street Journal
"[Lionel Asbo is] tender, almost earnest, in its emotions.... A ripper of a story, in the Dickens mode. There is even a happy ending."
—Charles Foran, The Globe and Mail
"Savagely funny.... Crackling with brilliant prose and scathing style, this novel plays like a gleefully twisted Great Expectations. Trust us, you don't want to miss this playful and suspenseful book--it's Amis at his best."
—Publishers Weekly
"An acidic satire on contemporary England by one of that country's most controversial and caustic wits."
—Edmonton Journal
"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."
—The Kansas City Star
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 079278944X
- ISBN 13 9780792789444
- BindingMP3 CD
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