Top of the world, ma!

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CASHAMFltDN BY THE-SEA - a normally idyllic world ofsun and money, sex and lame, where the rich get ricjner and the poor get dead, and where the great abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock drank himself to an early death. Enter Roger Lymon, aínbitious art reviewer wlio has been commissioned to find Pollock's lost last works, and to pen a biography with evidence oí Jack the Dripper's paedophilic p>ast. But as he begins to delve intő Cashampton society things start to get a little out of control. Michael Guinzburg's second növel, a best-seller in Francé, is a savage satire and a loving embrace ol humanity at its best and worst. Following 011 Írom the critically acclaimed Beam Me Up, Scoity, Top oj the World, M11! reaffirms Guinzburg as one of the most acerbíc and outrageous contemporary novelists writing today. PRA1SE KOR MJCHAK1 GÚINZBÜRti AND BeamMe Up. Scotty-. Riveting to the last page. Violent, funny and furious." THE OBSERVER "A great book. The hardest, purest American... Tovább

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CASHAMFltDN BY THE-SEA - a normally idyllic world ofsun and money, sex and lame, where the rich get ricjner and the poor get dead, and where the great abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock drank himself to an early death. Enter Roger Lymon, aínbitious art reviewer wlio has been commissioned to find Pollock's lost last works, and to pen a biography with evidence oí Jack the Dripper's paedophilic p>ast. But as he begins to delve intő Cashampton society things start to get a little out of control. Michael Guinzburg's second növel, a best-seller in Francé, is a savage satire and a loving embrace ol humanity at its best and worst. Following 011 Írom the critically acclaimed Beam Me Up, Scoity, Top oj the World, M11! reaffirms Guinzburg as one of the most acerbíc and outrageous contemporary novelists writing today. PRA1SE KOR MJCHAK1 GÚINZBÜRti AND BeamMe Up. Scotty-. Riveting to the last page. Violent, funny and furious." THE OBSERVER "A great book. The hardest, purest American prose since Faulkner's Sancluary." TERRY SOUTHERN "Guinzburg writes like Raymond Chandler 011 a trip. TIME OUT "A fictionalized account of a violent and terrifying clrop not a descent into a hell far more appalling than anything imagined by William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Hubert Selby Jr, or other probers of the lower depths; A remarkable and powerful document." GEORG1' P1.1MPTON "Truly originál. The America it depicts is unremittingly violent, obscene and anarchic." DAILY I I I.EGRAPH Vissza