Amis’s premise has possibilities – but execution is all, innit? This novel’s first third or so is a pleasure. Yet once Lionel the “Lotto Lout” starts frittering his millions, becoming first the butt, then the darling, of the tabloids, the book flatlines.
Monday, June 11, 2012
One Lionel on another …
… Lionel Shriver reviews Martin Amis's Lionel Asbo: Pit bull nation - FT.com.
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