London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland Contributor(s): Amis, Martin (Author), Sutherland, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375712526 ISBN-13: 9780375712524 Publisher: Everyman's Library
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2014 Click for more in this series: Everyman's Library |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Crime |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2014022034 |
Series: Everyman's Library |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.1" W x 8.1" L (1.45 lbs) 552 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Features: Bibliography, Bookmark, Dust Cover, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: 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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