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7 de may. de 2013 · Lionel Asbo: State of England is great, and what sets it apart from, say, London fields, is that it’s more concise, more linear. The unique style is still there (and it’s still unique), but the story is tighter, the scenes more immediate and therefore funnier. Or more immediate for me. I’ve met several Lionel Asbos, and I’m not even ...
Lionel Asbo: State of England. Hardcover – 7 Jun. 2012. Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won £139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery.
- Martin Amis
Lionel Asbo: State of England is set largely in a London of Martin Amis’s own making, a metropolis in the extreme mode, an excessive fantasy in which places and buildings stand for states of mind and become stages on which people play out dramas of destruction and desire. We may think we have been here before, in Amis’s earlier novels ...
7 de may. de 2013 · Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis. Publication date 2013-05-07 Publisher Vintage Canada Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor
To survive these lessons, Des seeks solace in a covert romantic union that would fill Lionel with rage. But just as Des begins to lead a healthier life, Lionel wins £140 million in the lottery. The money ushers in a public-relations firm for Lionel, along with a cannily ambitious topless model–poet.
27 de ago. de 2012 · Anything but a love letter, Amis' new novel, "Lionel Asbo: State of England," reads more like a good riddance. Its eponymous central character, a thuggish, semiliterate lout, springs from the ...
Review Martin Amis, Lionel Asbo: State of England London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. 288 pages, ISBN: 978-0224096201. £18.99. Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (Freelance, UK) The Literary London Journal, Volume 10 Number 1 (Spring 2013)
