
“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
Source: The Information
The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull . Amis has asserted that both characters are based on himself. It is, says Amis, a book about "literary enmity".
“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
Source: The Information