19 Mar, 2014
Martin Amis: Money has finally defeated British obsession with social class – The Independent
An American-style pursuit of wealth has finally defeated the British obsession with social class, the author Martin Amis has claimed. Sending a child to Eton College was once a class statement. But now it is a display of mere spending power, the novelist argues in a BBC4 documentary, Martin Amis’s England.
Amis, who moved to New York, with his family in 2012, reflects on educational opportunities in his native country.
“When I was of that age (a teenager), there was a vast gulf between state schools and public schools and it was a class gulf. But now, I think, it’s no longer a reflection of class, it’s a reflection of money,” the Radio Times quotes him saying in the film.
Amis, author of the acclaimed 1984 novel Money, which satirised the excesses of the Thatcher-era greed, said: “Money has won. It had always won in America but now it’s won in England too.
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