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Frightening, funny, and prescient
- The diabolical chain of events that follow, which comprise Martin Amis’s finest novel London Fields, are frightening, funny, and prescient. It is a trickily plotted murder mystery, a meditation on death and self-delusion, and a portrait of an empire in slow and inexorable decline.
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London Fields is a park in Hackney, east London, but the novel is set in west London, like most of Amis's work. The park in which the narrator, Sam, walks with various characters – Nicola Six, Guy Clinch and Keith Talent – is Hyde Park in central London.
Jan 1, 2001 · London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts.
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"London Fields" is set in the gritty and vibrant city of London during the late 20th century. The story revolves around three central characters: Samson Young, a terminally ill writer with a penchant for observation and manipulation; Keith Talent, an unscrupulous and brash petty criminal; and Nicola Six, a beautiful and enigmatic femme fatale ...
Set in Margaret Thatcher’s London, replete with smog, skinheads, and strange weather (the product of El Niño and other meteorological disturbances), London Fields is a grand novel that...
Aug 24, 2010 · 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...
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- Martin Amis
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010
Dec 9, 2019 · Pop Culture. England’s Screaming: The Apocalyptic Prescience of Martin Amis’s ‘London Fields,’ 30 Years Later. In 1989, Martin Amis released a tragedy, a comedy, a murder mystery, a (class) war...
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.
