Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields, presents a collection of essays on the "Moronic Inferno," aka the United States of America.
In this spirited, hilarious, luminous collection of twenty-six essays, Martin Amis tackles the great big moronic inferno of the United States of America. Filled with profiles of prolific American figures—such as writers like Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow; celebrities like Hugh Hefner; and filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Brian de Palma—The Moronic Inferno expertly probes the American consciousness.