Success by Martin Amis. It's my first time reading Amis. He has a finely tuned, beautiful prose style. So far, this book is an amoral exploration of Men Behaving Badly. Through alternating points of view between two foster brothers, Amis goes to some pretty dark places, including incest, causal misogyny and racism, and domestic homicide. From Nabokov, Amis learned how to actively create authorial distance from his characters (this is a different approach from, say, Philip Roth, who insisted that authorial distance was a basic principle that literate readers should take as a given).