- Fiction, City and town life, murder, violence
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.
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Bleak, contemporary, prestige and open-ended.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Martin Amis
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Harmony Books, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Italian, Russian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9789029080767
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Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels *Money* (1984) and *London Fields* (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir *Experience* and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for *Time's Arrow* and longlisted in 2003 for *Yellow Dog).* Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, *The Times* named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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