London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Amis, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375712526 ISBN 13: 9780375712524

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"A comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a scatological meditation on love and death and nuclear winter...by turns lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York 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: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0375712526
• ISBN 13: 9780375712524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 552