{"product_id":"london-fields-9780679730347","title":"London Fields","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction--from \"one of the most gifted novelists of his generation\" (\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1989, \u003ci\u003eLondon Fields\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, \u003ci\u003eLondon Fields \u003c\/i\u003eis also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARTIN AMIS \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of 15 novels--among them \u003ci\u003eZone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Night Train\u003c\/i\u003e--along with the memoir \u003ci\u003eExperience, \u003c\/i\u003e the novelized self-portrait \u003ci\u003eInside Story\u003c\/i\u003e, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627567124754,"sku":"9780679730347","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5525e40b-0922-4de0-b397-f37e2d573651.jpg?v=1732676416","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/london-fields-9780679730347","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}