Martin Amis’s “London Trilogy”, alongwith the novel London Fields, The Information, Money is hailed as a “sprawling fierce, Vulgar display and exhilarating skilful savvy when it made its first appearance in the mid-1980s. Ami’s funny and on-target portraits of life in the fast lane form a bold and frightening portrait of Ronald Regan’s America and Margaret Thatcher’s England.

Money is the hilarious story of John Self, one of London’s top commercial directors, who is given the opportunity to make his first feature film- alternatively titled Good Money and Bad Money. He is also living money, taking money, and spending money in his relentless pursuit of pleasure and success. As he attempts to navigate his hedonistic world of drinking, sex, drugs and excessive quantities of fast food, Self is sucked into a wretched spiral of degeneracy that is increasingly difficult to surface from. Money is ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, a tale of life. He delivers a searing portrayal of the moral bankruptcy and excesses of the 1980s, offering exploration of the destructive power of greed and corrosive effects of relationships and society.

 Money by Martin Amis, Penguin Books, 368 pages.