Success (novel)

Success was widely praised upon publication. The Guardian observed that "Gregory and Terry double the narrative in a way that makes Martin Amis's Success like a kind of two-way mirror"; critic Norman Shrapnel praised the novel's "icy wit" and called the narrative approach "artfully appropriate...[it] builds up an air of profound unreliabiity—entirely fitting, since things are by no means what they seem."^[1] In The Observer, critic Anthony Thwaite called the book "a moral homily from which all traces of morality have been removed with the brisk surgery of a razor blade on a fingernail...Success is a terrifying, painfully funny, Swiftian exercise in moral disgust; its exhilarating unpleasantness puts it alongside 'A Modest Proposal'."^[2] Critic Hermione Lee observed, "After Martin Amis's Success ... sibling rivalry seems almost as popular as sexual warfare, fictionally speaking."^[3] In December 1978, The Observer named Success one of its "Books of the Year."^[4]

• Bentley, Nick (2014). Martin Amis (Writers and Their Work). Northcote House Publishing Ltd.

• Diedrick, James (2004). Understanding Martin Amis (Understanding Contemporary British Literature). University of South Carolina Press.

• Finney, Brian (2013). Martin Amis (Routledge Guides to Literature). Routledge.

• Keulks, Gavin (2003). Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel Since 1950. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0299192105.

• Keulks, Gavin, ed. (2006). Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230008304.

• Tredall, Nicolas (2000). The Fiction of Martin Amis (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Bradford, Richard (November 2012). Martin Amis: The Biography. Pegasus. ISBN 978-1605983851.