![]() In The Information (1995), Amis focussed on the theme of male rivalry in the shape of two university friends turned writers: Richard Tull, cerebral and difficult, and Gwyn Barry, popular and undemanding. And style rather than plot certainly drove both Money and London Fields. Amis once said that style is not something that you add later. They read like literary versions of Harry Enfield’s ‘Loadsamoney’. ![]() In both, Amis captured the grasping acquisitiveness of the 1980s through the invented vernacular of its lead characters, such as John Self ( Money) and Keith Talent ( London Fields). These earlier works were all pretty strong, but it was not until Money (1984) and London Fields (1989) that Amis found his voice. And then there was Success (1978), a tale of two brothers marked by failure and success who gradually exchange places with each other. That was followed by Dead Babies (1975), a parody of an Agatha Christie country-house mystery, centering on the raucous, druggy antics of the young, beautiful and dissolute. The Rachel Papers (1973) was an entertaining foray into first love. ![]() He earned a strong following of his own with his first three novels. The younger Amis was always in danger of being overshadowed by his father’s reputation. ![]()
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