8: I don't seem to be able to...
After an eye-watering night at the opera with Martina, John Self is finally getting closer, though not close enough, to his old crush, as Bertie Carvel continues Amis's 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’s excesses haven’t 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: After an eye-watering night at the opera with Martina, John Self is finally getting closer, though not close enough, to his old crush
Writer: Martin Amis
Reader: Bertie Carvel
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett
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