Money by Martin Amis
THE GREAT ADDICTION
By Veronica Geng
March 24, 1985
A Suicide Note
By Martin Amis
363 pp. New York: Viking
THE narrator and protagonist of ''Money,'' John Self, 35, half-American Brit, director of ''controversial TV ads for smoking, drinking, junk food and nude magazines,'' is on a roll, riding the momentum of his addictions to smoking, drinking, junk food and nude magazines, plus a few other products of the dependence industries - television, dope, gambling, hitting women, synthetic confidence and, supremely, money, the ''money monkey'' on his back. After a late night of overindulgence, at a breakfast meeting in New York with a producer who wants him to direct a movie and ''three preliminary moneymen,'' Self starts ''making an extraordinary noise'':