num_pages: 374
description: Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demise of Barry."With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities."—Houston Chronicle
language: English
title: The Information
titlecomplete: The Information
characters: Gwyn Barry, Steve Cousins, Lady Demeter de Rougemount, Gina Tull, Richard Tull, Gal Aplanalp
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Thriller, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Modern, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5974
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Harmony