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London Fields is a blackly comic murder mystery novel by the British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989. The tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the approach of the deadline, or "horror day", the climactic scene alluded to on the very ...
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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Apr 3, 1991 · 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."
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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.
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Jan 1, 1990 · Released between the bloated 'Money' and the engaging and critically successful 'Time's Arrow', Martin Amis' 'London Fields', a thriller set against the threating feeling London metropolis, is, whilst possibly not his quintessential text, amongst his best works.
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Jan 1, 2005 · In London Fields it is again a dark place – terminally dark. Like D. H. Lawrence (a writer alluded to in London Fields) Amis sees the great tree of life, Yggdrasil, as dead to the roots in England. It can never grow again.
Aug 24, 2010 · 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.
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