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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 ...
6 de jun. 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, 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.
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) . 1>‘Boys like you […]They never learn’ (252, Amis’s italics).These words, addressed to Lionel Asbo, the title character of Martin Amis’s thirteenth novel ...
29 de ago. de 2012 · Martin Amis' 'State of England': ... In Lionel Asbo, the characters tailor their behavior to match the vulgarity of their papers. It's a trend that one feels Amis minds — but not too much.
28 de ago. de 2012 · Martin Amis’ new novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England, might as well have a big red target printed across its very fetching dust jacket.Amis, one of the bright literary lights of Eighties England, now endures more flak than adulation, seemingly emerging to make one more wrong-headed comment, or signify his disconnection with modern times.
By turns outrageous and touching, Lionel Asbo is an exuberant Dickensian satire of crime, celebrity, and modern culture—“one of Amis’s funniest novels” (The New Yorker). ... Lionel Asbo: State of England. Martin Amis. National Geographic Books, May 7, 2013 - Fiction - 272 pages.
