Desmond Pepperdine is terrified of his uncle Lionel Asbo. The slab-shaped man has been a full-fledged criminal since he was three years old. In fact, the Asbo stands for “Anti-Social Behavior Order,” and he’s legally…
Posts tagged Martin Amis
A distant mammary
This is one of those novels where a handful of young horn dogs go live in a castle in Italy for the summer. Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow is set in 1970 and the writer-ly…
The hilarity of tortured teens
Charles Highway is a Rick Ocasek-looking, luggie horking, father-hating-for-unspecified-reasons, asthmatic on the cusp of his 20th birthday, which he is taking, like most things, very seriously. He spends the hour leading up to midnight of…
A tale of two foster brothers
In one corner, we have Terry, a tragic character who is convinced that the universe has conspired to make sure no woman will ever sleep with him. His teeth are bad, he’s shedding hair, and…