London Fields is Martin Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium.
The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are
pornography and darts, or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London—and, indeed, the whole world—seems to shamble after them in a
corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Adopting a gruff American accent, British actor Steven Pacey captures Sam’s fascination with the characters’ blunders and his barely concealed desire to manipulate their fates. This superb audio treatment of a great novel will appeal to those who enjoy serious fiction that attempts to encompass societal woes without being didactic.” —Library Journal (audio review)
“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.” —New York Times
“Relentlessly bitter, often brutally funny, hypnotically readable.” —Publishers Weekly
“A cunning suspense tale of physical and psychic
mayhem…A darkly comic liebestod…Another caustic portrayal of human
desires…this time heightened by a more deeply sinister and squalid atmosphere.” —Booklist
Martin Amis (1949-2023) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His novels Night Train and London Fields made the New York Times bestsellers list.
His memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and two of his books were finalists for the Booker Prize. His novel Money was named by London’s The
Guardian as one of the top 100 Best Novels Written in English. He was a professor of creative writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.
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