5: Things got a little out of hand
With his actors in revolt, and his drinking getting now out of hand, Self wonder whether it's time to curb his excesses, in the next in Amis's classic novel of 1980s excess.
Bertie Carvel continues Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self.
John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.
Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.
But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his dangerously excessive lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.
Today: With his actors in revolt, and his drinking getting now out of hand, Self wonder whether it's time to curb his excesses...
Writer: Martin Amis
Reader: Bertie Carvel
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett
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