London Fields - Softcover

Amis, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099748614 ISBN 13: 9780099748618

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

Synopsis

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story., But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man., London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is write it as it happens.

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Review:

"A profound work, it's also the best novel ever written about pub darts." (John Sutherland The Times)

"I love reading novels about the city but this is my favourite. It manages to incorporate the seedy and the middle class Notting Hill side of the capital, all in one glorious unputdownable novel" (Phil Daniels Daily Express)

"Martin Amis's most ambitious, intelligent and nourishing novel to date... Keith Talent is a brilliant comic creation...as a fictional minor crook, he is in the major league, lying and cheating on the scale of Greene's Pinkie Brown and Saul Bellow's Rinaldo Cantabile" (Jay McInerney Observer)

"An electrifying writer who likes to shock his fans and share his sharply contemporary concerns... Amis is a maddening master you need to read - the best of his generation" (Mail on Sunday)

"London Fields, its pastoral title savagely inappropriate to its inner-city setting, vibrates, like all Amis's work, with the force fields of sinister, destructive energies. At the core of its surreal fable are four figures locked in lethal alignment" (Peter Kemp Sunday Times)

Book Description:

'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language' Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099748614
• ISBN 13: 9780099748618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544