LONDON FIELDS

AMIS, MARTIN

ISBN 10: 0679730346 / ISBN 13: 9780679730347

Published by NEW YORK NY HARMONY BOOKS PUB MARCH 1990., 1991

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NEAR FINE IN LIGHT BLUE PRINTED WRAPS. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN A FAINT CREASE TO THE REAR COVER. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LONDON FIELDS
• Publisher: NEW YORK NY HARMONY BOOKS PUB MARCH 1990.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679730346
• ISBN 13: 9780679730347
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction--from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME).

"Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." --The New York Times

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 Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own 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.

About the Author

MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels--among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, and Night Train--along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.