Lionel Asbo
Subtitle: state of England
By: Martin Amis
Edition: First Vintage international edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780099565680; 9780307948083
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Social life and customs; Hoodlums; Lottery winners; Guardian and ward; Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: Young Desmond Pepperdine desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love. Unfortunately for him, he is the ward of his uncle, Lionel Asbo (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Orders), a terrifying yet oddly principled thug who's determined to teach him the joys of pitbulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), internet porn (me love life) and all manner of more serious criminality. But just as Desmond begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, Lionel wins 140 million pounds in the lottery, hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and poet. Strangely, however, Lionel remains his vicious, weirdly loyal self, while his problems as well as Desmond's seem only to multiply.
Notes: Originally published : London : Jonathan Cape, 2012.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. 2006 Desmond Pepperdine, Renaissance Boy; title: pt. 2. 2009 Lionel Asbo, Lotto Lout; title: pt. 3. 2012 Cilla Dawn Pepperdine, Babe in Arms; title: pt. 4. 2013 Who? Who?