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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780679730347
ISBN: 0679730346
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: April 03, 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 03, 1991
Sales Rank: 162760
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
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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Rating:  -
Strange book. There are many characters I find memorable and many quotable lines, but ultimately I didn't get it. It did remind of Pale Fire, that's true. I liked Lucky Jim.
Rating: -
I enjoyed this novel. I stayed up late reading it over six nights. Yet, when the structure of the story began in the last sections to erode, and when the climactic fireworks, on a variety of levels, that Amis had taken such glee in arranging failed to spark as I'd hoped, I felt let down. Much of the novel's capable of five stars. I had just read Nabokov's "Ada" & "Bend Sinister" (also reviewed by me), so I was curious to discover how an author considered an heir to such narrative pyrotechnics ... Read More
Rating:  -
A mistress of seduction, having `come to the end of men' and a belief in the possibility of love, seeks her own murder--and sets about ruining the lives of two very different men in order to bring it about. The narrator of the novel--a self-described failure at art and love--is terminally ill and now rapidly failing at life, too; he's set himself the task of chronicling the rather ignoble efforts of Nicola Six and her pyrrhic dual seduction. The proceedings are set against an ominously ... Read More
Rating:  -
Martin Amis' long (perhaps long-winded) novel about a femme fatale-psychic who is predisposed to being murdered as she entraps Keith Talent, a brutish dart player, and Guy Clinch, a struggling writer into her web of seduction and deceit. Amis pads this thin story with typically entertaining and satisfying scenarios that he seems to have a knack for, but the novel just isn't nearly as interesting as his Information or Money. At some point during the project, Amis lost touch with the original force of ... Read More
Rating: -
although it has the slightly dated flavor of Y2K hysteria,
the characters, dialogue and character descriptions are
perfect. amis has a way of using single sentences to mean
multiple, sometimes ironically contradictory things, and
this only adds to the informational content inherent in
every word. he is truly a master of the english language,
if not a master of writing the ending to a novel. enjoy it
for what it's worth, which is a virtuoso use of the english ... Read More
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