Early in this novel, its protagonist declares “unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” A rattletrap purple Fiasco is the beloved car of this novel’s protagonist, who is coaxed into (-5[1])reading Animal Farm and 1984 and attending an opera by Martina Twain. This novel’s italicized epilogue follows a (15[1])scene (15[1])in which the protagonist is caught (15[1]-5[1])in zugzwang, losing a chess game (15[1])and then a fistfight to (15[1])an authorial (*) self-insert. This novel was inspired by its author’s time writing the (10[1])screenplay for (10[1])Saturn 3. At this novel’s climax, the menacing “Frank the Phone” is revealed to be a crossdressing Fielding (10[1])Goodney, (10[1])who set up (10[1])an elaborate scam involving a fake film. “A (10[1])Suicide Note” is the subtitle of, for 10 points, what 1984 novel about the hedonistic John Self, (10[1])written by Martin Amis? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])