Author(s): Martin Amis

Fiction

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, aquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed though his busy bed. His foster brother Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief, burdened by an unmentionable past and the unlikelyhood of ever having a good time in bed. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed, when Success swivels her capricious gaze.