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Lionel Asbo: State of England

Martin Amis

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Published by Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

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Available to pre-order for 07 Jun 2012

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EAN: 9780224096201
Published: 7 Jun 2012

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Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won £139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has reason to fear his uncle's implacable vengeance.

Savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant, Lionel Asbo is a modern fairytale from one of the world's great writers.

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Martin Amis is the author of twelve previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most recently The Second Plane. He lives in New York.