London Fields
London Fields by Martin Amis is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on April 3, 1991. This 480-page novel presents a blackly comic murder mystery set against the backdrop of a deteriorating society as the millennium approaches. The story revolves around Nicola Six, who has chosen her own murder date, and her attempts to manipulate those around her into fulfilling her dark wish.
Readers will find a narrative rich in complexity, featuring characters such as the violent Keith Talent and the romantic banker Guy Clinch, as well as Samson Young, a writer grappling with creative block. The book explores themes of crime and moral ambiguity within a literary framework, offering a unique twist on the traditional mystery genre. With its blend of humor and social commentary, London Fields invites readers into a world marked by environmental decay and existential dread.
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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.
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