Money. A Suicide Note.

First edition. 8vo. 368pp. Black cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Mon Mohan / Dick Jones.

Signed to title-page by Author. Light toning and soiling to text-block edges, price-clipped d/w a tad rubbed to upper corners, else Fine.

Author's fifth novel. Excerpted in Granta 7, on the occasion of Amis's inclusion on the original list of Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. Included in Time Magazine's 2005 list of the "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present". A scathing portrayal of one man's relentless pursuit of hedonistic excess in the film-making world of 1980's Manhattan. Dramatised as a two-part BBC series in 2010, with Nick Frost playing John Self, Amis's acknowledged masterpiece is based on the author's experiences as a script writer on the 1980 feature film Saturn 3, which starred Kirk Douglas.

"Amis wipes the floor with all his contemporaries; one constantly re-reads paragraphs in Money for the sheer joy of hearing the prose fizz. Then there are the gags: crisp one-liners, waggish names for cars and junk food, the usual Amis examination of appalled and appalling sex, and a hilarious dissection of movie star ego... a great novel." –Time Out