Lionel Asbo: State of England
Lionel Asbo. . . reads asMoney's thematic sequel. A portrait of an underclass thug who wins the lottery,Asboamplifies the earlier novel's hyperbolic farce . . . Sizing up the media culture that the John Selves of the world designed, pitching his voice somewhere between Dickensian melodrama and J. G. Ballard dystopia, Amis squints contemptuously at the dimming sun of the British Empire. — Troy Patterson