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London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Publish Date: Nov 4th, 2014
- Pages: 552
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.10in - 1.40in - 1.45lb
- EAN: 9780375712524
- Categories: • Literary• Mystery & Detective - Traditional• Crime
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About the Author
JOHN SUTHERLAND is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at University College London and a regular columnist at The Guardian.
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"Perhaps the purest of Amis’s novels... Amis said that the real subject of every novel was, as Trollope had it, “The Way We Live Now,” and this one, set in a near future of shifty relationships and misinformation, shows how keen his social vision could be."
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Martin Amis's writing had a dark, comic energy. His great 1980s novels captured the grasping, id-driven bedlam of the era like few others. Money and London Fields are testament to his talent, says @JamesHeartfield https://t.co/8c4HkKSwW9
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"Amis has trumped himself. . . . A complex and daring work that contains many passages of comic genius that can hardly be matched in English fiction since Dickens." --Newsday
"Amis' prose is hiw own: slangy, showy, knowing, with pinball rhythms. . . . [London Fields] is wickedly good." --Philadelphia Inquirer
"London Fields is Martin Amis' most ambitious, intelligent and nourishing novel to date. . . . Amis is hilariously eloquent." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Amis is a brilliant entertainer who knows how to wrap his anger at the terminal horrors of contemporary life in a movelike montage of varying styles and voices." --Newsweek
"A literary, funny, elaborate novel marinated in sex." --Wall Street Journal
"I Am one of many readers who thought that Money was the novel of the '80s, the book that captured the obscene greed of a decade. Now, with London Fields, Amis has published what may stand as the definitive end-of-the-millennium novel." --USA Today
"Amis is a clever, skillful writer, and London Fields displays his range of talents well." --San Francisco Chronicle
"His novel is a great act of generosity, a capacious and intelligent book that announces the author's importance in the arena of contemporary literature." --Vogue
What people are saying
"Perhaps the purest of Amis’s novels... Amis said that the real subject of every novel was, as Trollope had it, “The Way We Live Now,” and this one, set in a near future of shifty relationships and misinformation, shows how keen his social vision could be."
The magazine that wants to change the world as well as report on it. For humanism, democracy and freedom. Donate: https://t.co/89PhrXmrZC…
Martin Amis's writing had a dark, comic energy. His great 1980s novels captured the grasping, id-driven bedlam of the era like few others. Money and London Fields are testament to his talent, says @JamesHeartfield https://t.co/8c4HkKSwW9