Money (full title: Money: A Suicide Note) is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of commercials who is invited to New York by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, in order to shoot his first film. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of porn...
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Money (full title: Money: A Suicide Note) is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of commercials who is invited to New York by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, in order to shoot his first film. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends too much, encouraged by Goodney.
The actors in the film, which Self originally titles Good Money but which he eventually wants to re-name Bad Money, all have some kind of emotional issues which clash with each other and with the parts they are asked to play - the principal casting having already been done by Goodney. For example: the strict Christian, Spunk Davis (whose name is intentionally unfortunate), is asked to play a drugs pusher; the ageing hardman Lorne Guyland has to be...
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