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London Fields

(Vintage International)

By Martin Amis

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| Paperback | 9780679730347

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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. Or is the killContinue

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. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?

"A comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a scatological meditation on love and death and nuclear winter...by turns lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

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  • London Fields (Vintage International)

    Review-a-Day Saturday, April 20th, 2002 London Fields (Vintage International) by Martin Amis A review by Jason Picone Nicola Six is planning a murder. She's an irresistible woman looking for a couple of good men to do the deed. She'll have to settle ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • Darts for art’s sake

    Nuclear weapons, by their very existence, ‘distort all life and subvert all freedoms’, and even thinking or reading about them for too long may induce ‘nausea, clinical nausea’. So Martin Amis in ‘Thinkability’, the introduction to his collection of ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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