London Fields

by Martin Amis (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $4.19

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $4.20

  London Fields is Amis' 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. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $12.56

  There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is write it as it happens.