{"product_id":"lionel-asbo-isbn-9780307948083","title":"Lionel Asbo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy turns outrageous and touching, an exuberant Dickensian satire of crime, celebrity, and modern culture \u003cb\u003efrom \"one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of Amis’s funniest novels.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes Pepperdine is a boy out of place. He lives on the thirty-third floor of a London housing project; while his peers pick fights, Des retreats to the public library. What’s more, Des’s uncle and guardian, Lionel Asbo, is one of the most notorious petty criminals in the city. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet Lionel, full of inept devotion to his nephew, dutifully teaches Des the essentials of becoming a man (always carry a knife; pornography is easier than dating; pit bulls should be fed Tabasco sauce). To survive these lessons, Des seeks solace in a covert romantic union that would fill Lionel with rage. But just as Des begins to lead a healthier life, Lionel wins £140 million in the lottery. The money ushers in a public-relations firm for Lionel, along with a cannily ambitious topless model–poet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough it all, Lionel remains his vicious, oddly loyal self, and his problems, as well as Des’s, only seem to multiply.“Amis is a force unto himself. . . . There is, quite simply, no one else like him.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of Amis’s funniest novels.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Amis’s language is electric, his wit as sharp and precise than it has been in a decade.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Full of heart and warmth . . . an unexpected reward for readers.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“At heart an old-fashioned novel. . . . Amis is, like Dickens, an insistently moral writer, satire being an edifying genre with a noble cause: the improvement of society.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Breathtaking. . . . A great big confidence trick of a novel—an attack that turns into an embrace—a book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely. It is every inch the novel that we all deserve. So let’s give thanks that Martin Amis was bad enough and brave enough to write it.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Guardian (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Shockingly, savagely funny. . . . Martin Amis represents the best of contemporary British literature—serious, hilarious, unsettling and provocative.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Huffington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Lionel Asbo bears a strong resemblance to the trio of novels . . . that made Amis’ reputation. . . . But Lionel Asbo may be even better than these ambitious works of fiction, more disciplined, funnier and more inventive. . . . To say that it is a return to form is an understatement—it might be his finest work.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —The Denver Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Full of Amis’ trademark virtuoso prose and wit. . . . Technically brilliant, dazzling in style, manic in energy and driven by a narrative momentum impossible to resist.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Toronto Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Little in fiction is more entertaining than Martin Amis at his pithy best. . . . ‘Lionel Asbo: State of England’ posits plenty of pith and cutting cultural criticism. It is wild. It is whacked. . . . [It] swings between wildly funny and harshly real.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e—The Plain Dealer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Amis’ portrait of someone who feeds Tabasco-splashed meat to his pit bulls in order to enrage them and toughen them up is surprisingly tender. . . . Fond, too, is Amis’ approach to Asbo’s mixed-race nephew, who serves as the vehicle for the moral conclusion of what in form is in fact not satire but a fairytale . . . Amis’ plea . . . would seem to be that nobody is beyond redemption.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Daily Beast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An Amis sentence is mordant and coruscating, unpredictable and unruly, its own singular music. No surprise, these creations gather into paragraphs of propulsive insights, mini-essays in satiric spin and compression. There may be no better paragraph writer in the language, either. . . . The novel mingles in genuine characters with the usual comedic grotesques, and is tender, almost earnest, in its emotions.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Crackles with brilliant prose and scathing satire. . . . He riffs like a jazz master, in and out of vernacular, with brief gusts of description, all driven by a tight bass line of suspense.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In his 13th novel—one of his most compulsively readable—wily, dead-on satirist and consummate artist Martin Amis is grandly acerbic, funny and unnerving. . . . With crisp insights, rollicking storytelling and acrobatic wit, Amis has created a peppery, topsy-turvy Pygmalion fable and hilarious dismantlement of our cherished rags-to-riches fantasy.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Kansas City Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“This deliciously shivery, sly, and taunting page-turner provokes a fresh assessment of the poverty of place, mind, and spirit and the wondrous blossoming of against-all-odds goodness.”\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARTIN AMIS \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of 15 novels—among them \u003ci\u003eZone of Interest, London Fields, Time’s Arrow, The Information, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Night Train\u003c\/i\u003e—along with the memoir \u003ci\u003eExperience,\u003c\/i\u003e the novelized self-portrait \u003ci\u003eInside Story\u003c\/i\u003e, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.\u003ci\u003eExcerpted from the Hardcover Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2006 ​Desmond Pepperdine, Renaissance Boy\u003cbr\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Jennaveieve,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’m  having an affair with an older woman. Shes’ a lady of some  sophistication, and makes a refreshing change from the teen agers I know  (like Alektra for example, or Chanel.) The sex is fantastic and I think  I’m in love. But ther’es one very serious complication and i’ts this;  shes’ my Gran!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesmond Pepperdine (Desmond, Des, Desi), the  author of this document, was fifteen and a half. And his handwriting,  nowadays, was self-consciously elegant; the letters used to slope  backward, but he patiently trained them to slope forward; and when  everything was smoothly conjoined he started adding little flourishes  (his e was positively ornate—like a w turned on its side). Using the  computer he now shared with his uncle, Des had given himself a course on  calligraphy, among several other courses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the plus-side, the age-difference is surprisingly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe crossed that bit out, and resumed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt  started a fort-night ago when she rang up and said its the plumbing  again love. And I said nan? I’ll be right over. She lives in a granny  flat under a house about a mile away and theres allways some thing wrong  with it’s plumbing. Now I’m no plumber but I learnd a bit from my Uncle  George whose in the trade. I sorted it out for her and she said why not  stay for a few drink’s?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalligraphy (and sociology, and  anthropology, and psychology), but not yet punctuation. He was a good  little speller, Des, but he knew how weak his punctuation was because he  had just begun a course on it. And punctuation, he (quite rightly)  intuited, was something of an art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo we had a few Dubonnet’s  which I’m not used to, and she was giving me these funny look’s. She’s  all ways got the Beatles’ on and she was playing all the slow one’s like  Golden Slumber’s, Yester-day, and Sh’es Leaving Home. Then gran says  its so hot I’ll just slip in to my night-dress. And she came back in a  babydoll!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was trying to give himself an education—not at  Squeers Free, recently singled out, he read in the Diston Gazette, as  the worst school in England. But his understanding of the planet and the  universe had inconceivable voids in it. He was repeatedly amazed by the  tonnage of what he didn’t know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo we had a few more drink’s,  and I was noticing how well preserved she is. She’s taken good care of  herself and shes really fit considering the life shes’ led. So after a  few more drink’s she says are’nt you frying alive in that blazer? Come  over here handsome, and give us a cuddle! Well what could I do. She put  her hand on my thigh and slid it up my short’s. Well I’m only human  aren’t I? The stereo was playing I Should Of Known Better—but one thing  lead to another, and it was mind blowing!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor instance, the only  national newspaper Des had ever read was the Morning Lark. And  Jennaveieve, his addressee, was its agony aunt—or better say its ecstasy  aunt. The page she presided over consisted of detailed accounts of  perhaps wholly imaginary liaisons, and her replies consisted of a lewd  pun followed by an exclamation mark. Desmond’s tale was not imaginary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow  you must believe me that this is all very “out of character.” It was  never mean’t to be! Okay we live in Diston, where that sort of thing  isnt much frownd up on. And, okay my Gran had a mischivous youth. But  she’s a respectable woman. The thing is shes got a big birthday coming  up and I reckon its turnd her head. As for myself, my background is  strict christian at least on my fathers side (Pentecostalist.) And you  see Jennaveieve, I’ve been very unhappy since my Mum, Cilla passed away  three year’s ago. I can’t find the word’s. I needed gentleness. And when  gran touched me like that. Well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes had no intention of  actually mailing his letter to Jennaveieve (whose partly naked body also  adorned the page headed, not Ecstasy Aunt, but Agony Angel). He was  writing it simply to ease his own mind. He imagined Jennaveieve’s  dependably non-judgemental reply. Something like: At least you’re having  a Gran old time! Des wrote on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApart from the legal question  which is worrying me sick, theres another huge problem. Her son, Lionel  is my uncle, and hes’ like a father to me when he’s not in prison. See  hes an extremely violent criminal and if he find’s out I’m giving his  Mum one, hell fucking kill me. Litrally!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt might be argued that  this was a grave underestimation of Lionel’s views on trespass and  reprisal . . . The immediate goal, for Des, was to master the  apostrophe. After that, the arcana of the colon and the semicolon, the  hyphen, the dash, the slash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the plus-side, the age-gap is not  that big. See Granny Grace was an early starter, and fell pregnant when  she was 12, just like my M\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe heard the thick clunks of the  locks, he looked with horror at his watch, he tried to stand upright on  deadened legs—and suddenly Lionel was there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLionel was  there, a great white shape, leaning on the open door with his brow  pressed to his raised wrist, panting huskily, and giving off a faint  grey steam in his purple singlet (the lift was misbehaving, and the flat  was on the thirty-third floor—but then again Lionel could give off  steam while dozing in bed on a quiet afternoon). Under his other arm he  was carrying a consignment of lager. Two dozen, covered in polythene.  Brand: Cobra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You’re back early, Uncle Li.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe held up a  callused palm. They waited. In his outward appearance Lionel was  brutally generic—the slablike body, the full lump of the face, the  tight-shaved crown with its tawny stubble. Out in the great world city,  there were hundreds of thousands of young men who looked pretty much  like Lionel Asbo. In certain lights and settings he resembled, some  said, the England and Manchester United prodigy, striker Wayne Rooney:  not exceptionally tall, and not fat, but exceptionally broad and  exceptionally deep (Des saw his uncle every day—and Lionel was always  one size bigger than expected). He even had Rooney’s gap-toothed smile.  Well, the upper incisors were widely spaced, yet Lionel very seldom  smiled. You only saw them when he sneered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“ . . . What you doing there with that pen? What’s that you writing? Guiss it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes thought fast. “Uh, it’s about poetry, Uncle Li.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poetry?” said Lionel and started back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yeah. Poem called The Faerie Queene.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The  what? . . . I despair of you sometimes, Des. Why aren’t you out  smashing windows? It’s not healthy. Oh yeah, listen to this. You know  that bloke I bashed up in the pub the other Friday? Mr. ‘Ross Knowles,’  if you please? He’s only pressing charges. Grassed me. Would you credit  it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesmond knew how Lionel was likely to feel about such a  move. One night last year Lionel came home to find Des on the black  leatherette sofa, innocently slumped in front of Crimewatch. The result  was one of the longest and noisiest slappings he had ever received at  his uncle’s hands. They asking members of the public, said Lionel,  standing in front of the giant screen with his arms akimbo, to fink on  they own neighbours. Crimewatch, it’s like a . . . like a programme for  paedophiles, that is. It disgusts me. Now Des said,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He went to the law? Aw, that’s . . . That’s . . . the lowest of the low, that is. What you going to do, Uncle Li?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well  I’ve been asking around and it turns out he’s a loner. Lives in a  bedsit. So there’s no one I can go and terrify. Except him.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“But he’s still in hospital.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“So? I’ll take him a bunch of grapes. You feed the dogs?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yeah. Only we’re out of Tabasco.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  dogs, Joe and Jeff, were Lionel’s psychopathic pitbulls. Their domain  was the narrow balcony off the kitchen, where, all day, the two of them  snarled, paced, and swivelled—and prosecuted their barking war with the  pack of Rottweilers that lived on the roof of the next high-rise along.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Don’t lie to me, Desmond,” said Lionel quietly. “Don’t ever lie to me.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m not!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You told me you fed them. And you never give them they Tabasco!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Uncle Li, I didn’t have the cash! They’ve only got the big bottles and they’re five ninety-five!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“That’s  no excuse. You should’ve nicked one. You spent thirty quid, thirty  quid, on a fucking dictionary, and you can’t spare a couple of bob for  the dogs.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I never spent thirty quid! . . . Gran give it me. She won it on the crossword. The prize crossword.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joe and Jeff—they not pets, Desmond Pepperdine. They tools of me trade.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLionel’s  trade was still something of a mystery to Des. He knew that part of it  had to do with the very hairiest end of debt collection; and he knew  that part of it involved “selling on” (Lionel’s word for selling on was  reset). Des knew this by simple logic, because Extortion With Menaces  and Receiving Stolen Property were what Lionel most often went to prison  for . . . He stood there, Lionel, doing something he was very good at:  disseminating tension. Des loved him deeply and more or less  unquestioningly (I wouldn’t be here today without Uncle Li, he often  said to himself). But he always felt slightly ill in his presence. Not  ill at ease. Ill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . You’re back early, Uncle Li,” he repeated as airily as he could. “Where you been?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cynthia. I don’t know why I bestir meself. Gaa, the state of that Cynthia.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  spectral blonde called Cynthia, or Cymfia, as he pronounced it, was the  nearest thing Lionel had to a childhood sweetheart, in that he started  sleeping with her when she was ten (and Lionel was nine). She was also  the nearest thing he had to a regular girlfriend, in that he saw her  regularly—once every four or five months. Of women in general, Lionel  sometimes had this to say: More trouble than they worth, if you ask me.  Women? I’m not bothered. I’m not bothered about women. Des thought that  this was probably just as well: women, in general, should be very  pleased that Lionel wasn’t bothered about them. One woman bothered  him—yes, but she bothered everyone. She was a promiscuous beauty named  Gina Drago . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Des. That Cynthia,” said Lionel with a  surfeited leer. “Christ. Even uh, during the uh, you know, during the  other, I was thinking, Lionel, you wasting you youth. Lionel, go home.  Go home, boy. Go home and watch some decent porn.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes picked up the Mac and got smartly to his feet. “Here. I’m off out anyway.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yeah? Where? Seeing that Alektra?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nah. Meet up with me mates.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well do something useful. Steal a car. Eh, guess what. You Uncle Ringo won the Lottery.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He never. How much?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Twelve  pounds fifty. It’s a mug’s game, the Lottery, if you ask me. Oy. I’ve  been meaning to ask you something. When you creep off at night . . .”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes  was standing there holding the Mac in both hands, like a waiter with a  tray. Lionel was standing there with the Cobras in both hands, like a  drayman with a load.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When you creep off at night, you carry a blade?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Uncle Li! You know me.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well  you should. For you own security. And you peace of mind. You going to  get youself striped. Or worse. There’s no fistfights any more, not in  Diston. There’s only knife fights. To the death. Or guns. Well,” he  relented, “I suppose they can’t see you in the fucking dark.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Des just smiled with his clean white teeth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Take a knife from the drawer on you way out. One of them black ones.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes didn’t meet up with his mates. (He didn’t have any mates. And he didn’t want any mates.) He crept off to his gran’s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs  we know, Desmond Pepperdine was fifteen. Grace Pepperdine, who had led a  very demanding life and borne many, many children, was a reasonably  presentable thirty-nine. Lionel Asbo was a heavily weathered twenty-one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.  . . In dusty Diston (also known as Diston Town or, more simply, Town),  nothing—and no one—was over sixty years old. On an international chart  for life expectancy, Diston would appear between Benin and Djibouti  (fifty-four for men and fifty-seven for women). And that wasn’t all. On  an international chart for fertility rates, Diston would appear between  Malawi and Yemen (six children per couple—or per single mother). Thus  the age structure in Diston was strangely shaped. But still: Town would  not be thinning out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes was fifteen. Lionel was twenty-one. Grace was thirty-nine . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe  bent to unlatch the gate, he skipped down the seven stone steps, he  knocked the knocker. He listened. Here came the shuffle of her fluffy  slippers, and in the background (as ever) the melodic purity of a  Beatles song. Her all-time favourite: “When I’m Sixty-Four.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDawn simmered over the incredible edifice—the stacked immensity of Avalon Tower.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn  the curtained balcony (the size of a tight parking space), Joe lay  dreaming of other dogs, enemy dogs, jewel-eyed hellhounds. He barked in  his sleep. Jeff rolled over with a blissful sigh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn bedroom  number one (the size of a low-ceilinged squash court, with considerable  distances between things, between the door and the bed, between the bed  and the wardrobe, between the wardrobe and the free-standing swing  mirror), Lionel lay dreaming of prison and his five brothers. They were  all in the commissary, queuing for Mars Bars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in bedroom number two (the size of a generous four-poster), Des lay dreaming of a ladder that rose up to heaven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDay came. Lionel left early with Joe and Jeff (business). Des dreamed on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor  six or seven months now he had been sensing it: the pangs and  quickenings of intelligence within his being. Cilla, Des’s mother, died  when he was twelve, and for three years he entered a kind of trance, a  leaden sleep; all was numb and Mumless . . . Then he woke up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe  started keeping a diary—and a notebook. There was a voice in his head,  and he listened to it and he talked to it. No, he communed with it, he  communed with the whispers of his intelligence. Did everybody have one,  an inner voice? An inner voice that was cleverer than they were? He  thought probably not. Then where did it come from?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDes looked to his family tree—to his personal Tree of Knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell,  Grace Pepperdine, Granny Grace, had not attended all that closely to  her education, for obvious reasons: she was the mother of seven children  by the age of nineteen. Cilla came first. All the rest were boys: John  (now a plasterer), Paul (a foreman), George (a plumber), Ringo  (unemployed), and Stuart (a seedy registrar). 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