Success

Success is Martin Amis' third novel, published in 1978 by Jonathan Cape. PlotSuccess tells the story of two foster brothers-Terence Service and Gregory Riding, narrating alternate sections-and their exchange of position during one calendar year as each slips towards, and away from, success. ThemesSuccess is Amis' first statement of the doppleganger theme that would also preoccupy the novels Money, London Fields, and, especially, 1995's The Information.