London Fields (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679730347)

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.

Author: Martin Amis
ISBN-10: 0679730346
ISBN-13: 9780679730347
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/03/1991
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.23w x 1.06d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/01/1991
Entertainment Weekly 10/16/2015 pg. 113