A surreal, shrill and darkly humorous tale of individuals locked in a lethal alignment, London Fields revolves around a terminally ill young writer and a woman – destined to be murdered on her 35th birthday – whose story he becomes determined to narrate as it happens.
Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own.
Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting to be narrated.
At its centre is the mesmeric, doomed Nicola Six, destined to be murdered on her 35th birthday. Around her: the disreputable men who might yet turn out to be her killer. All Samson has to do is to write Nicola's story as it happens, and savour in this one last gift that life has granted him.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099748618
Number of pages: 544
Weight: 375 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
A profound work, it's also the best novel ever written about pub darts. - John Sutherland, The Times
Martin Amis's most ambitious, intelligent and nourishing novel to date... Keith Talent is a brilliant comic creation...as a fictional minor crook, he is in the major league, lying and cheating on the scale of Greene's Pinkie Brown and Saul Bellow's Rinaldo Cantabile - Observer
An electrifying writer who likes to shock his fans and share his sharply contemporary concerns... Amis is a maddening master you need to read - the best of his generation - Mail on Sunday
London Fields, its pastoral title savagely inappropriate to its inner-city setting, vibrates, like all Amis's work, with the force fields of sinister, destructive energies. At the core of its surreal fable are four figures locked in lethal alignment - Sunday Times
What an outstanding book. London Fields will probably stay with me forever. I don't think I was supposed to find the protagonist or his associates likable characters. I found them adorable.This novel is executed... More
Fascinating and gritty insight into London life, the working class, millionaires, artistes and men. I am sure some of the stuff in this novel actually happens in reality, especially in London and other major cities... More
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