3: Addicts can win
Self is struggling with actors, his girlfriend and a phone stalker and has an awful feeling that something even worse is about to happen, in Martin Amis's savagely funny cult novel.
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鈥檚 excesses haven鈥檛 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: as well as wrestling with the demands of his actors, writer and slippery girlfriend Selina, Self can't kick the feeling that something very wrong is about to happen...
Writer: Martin Amis
Reader: Bertie Carvel
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett
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