| Success Contributor(s): Amis, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679734481 ISBN-13: 9780679734482 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1991 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90050617 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.26" W x 8.01" (0.42 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry. |