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

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 €œblack 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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  • TitleLondon Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
  • BrandEveryman's Library
  • ManufacturerEveryman's Library
  • BindingHardcover
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  • ReleaseDate2014-11-04T00:00:01Z
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  • EANs9780375712524