- Paperback: 226 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (5 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571196152
- ISBN-13: 978-0571196159
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,302,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Imagine Withnail and I framed for a murder they didn't commit, on the run from the Law with a body in the back of their van. The result is Luxury Amnesia, a pacy, tense thriller with a heap of comedy thrown in for good measure. Andy Gates is a has-been. Formerly a bassist with the one-hit-wonder band Overload he now makes his money decorating the houses of the filthy rich and spends his time mooning over angelic ex-fling Sara while trying to avoid Phil, the band's deluded, ridiculous singer and front-man who plagues him with a never-ending stream of ideas for Overload's come-back. These two wasters are forced into action and even heroism when their millionaire friend Mark Bowring is found dead and they are the prime suspects. David Huggins is an illustrator whose work has appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines. His first book The Big Kiss won The Bad Sex Award in 1996. With stacks of rancid crockery, mouldy takeaway cartons, stinky T-shirts and vomit on every other page--not to mention the endless array of brilliantly corny turns-of-phrase--Luxury Amnesiais not a story for the squeamish but will grip readers with a strong stomach and a taste for bawdy page-turners. --Anna Davis
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Set against the social divide of contemporary London, this novel follows a group of degenerates and misfits (washed-up pop stars reduced to painting and decorating, spoilt delinquents, poules-de-luxe, property speculators, mature arts students) as they sink into a life of extortion and criminality.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A bit of a ripping yarn this that invloves a couple of has beens and a lot of typically British humour and characters.
I liked the story, I liked the characters I think I should have and disliked the ones I shouldn't have. I also felt sorry for the characters that were sad cases.
I think the strength of the story is that it revolves around a plot that seems as if the murder might be just have been a bit of a mistake; but unravels to have been carefully laid out plot. The strength of the novel pours out of the inept way in which the two main characters attempt to sort it all out. They do sort it all out in the end but after a lot of pain and heartache; not to mention driving all over the place with a corpse in the back of a painter's van.
I was intrigued by the sex scene in which we are led to believe that the female party of the action was supposed to be trying to wheedle a load of crucial information from the male party of the action. Well, given the position she put herself into, both literally and figuratively, she was onto a bit of a loser on that score. She got no information; but seems to have enjoyed the sex!
A weakness of mine is that when I read a British book, I wince when I see Americanisms creeping in to the narrative. I don't mean that the characters themselves can't pretend that they are Uncle Sam's best mate. I mean that when I read "putting me on" instead of "having me on", it doesn't sit well for me: Brits don't say that, do they? I found a few of these dotted around the book and they definitely grated on me.
Definitely worth a read, definitely worth making a deliberate attempt to get a copy of this book. I haven't read any iof Huggins' other stuff; but I will look out for it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
the ex-basist's name is Andy Hayes, not Andy Gates.. imagine withnail and I lacking the funniness, or the office minus jokes.
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