London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland

London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland - Hardcover

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London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland - Hardcover

London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland - Hardcover

by Martin Amis
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$35.00

Book Overview

Martin Amis's acclaimed novel--now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary hardcover edition--is a blackly comic murder mystery about a murder that has not yet happened.

First published in 1989, LONDON FIELDS is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded millennium approaches, Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing, attempts to orchestrate her own extinction, choosing her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young--a writer suffering from a long bout of writer's block--stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, LONDON FIELDS is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.
ISBN9780375712524
Author Martin Amis
PublisherEveryman's Library
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedNovember 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages552
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Martin Amis

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them Money, London Fields, and The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir Experience.

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