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Literature · 1984
P. T. Barnum
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Literature 1984

Money

transatlantic excessJohn Self appetiteadvertising-age rot
Author
P. T. Barnum
Year
1984
Region
United Kingdom
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Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...

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transatlantic excess transatlantic excessJohn Self appetite
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P. T. Barnum, 1984 — Money

Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...

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Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...
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