London fields
by Martin Amis
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A supreme femme fatale has been cursed with premonitions. She forsees her own murder, singles out the two most likely murderers, and attempts to make them pay in advance.
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Fiction, City and town life, murder, violence, killers, love, death, New York Times reviewed, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, general, Romance Ingles, Large type books, Social life and customs, English literature, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British, FICTION / CrimePlaces
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London fields
1991, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage international ed.
0679730346 9780679730347
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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. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself.
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