Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all
here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This
is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn
Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV
interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of
literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes,
is the plot the demise of Barry.
"With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age
realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than
[anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged "Bonfire of the Vanities"."-- "Houston
Chronicle"