{"product_id":"london-fields-introduction-by-john-sutherland-9780375712524","title":"London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland","description":"Martin Amis's acclaimed novel--now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary hardcover edition--is a blackly comic murder mystery about a murder that has not yet happened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 millennium approaches, Nicola Six, a \"black hole\" of sex and self-loathing, attempts to orchestrate her own extinction, choosing her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her 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. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, LONDON FIELDS is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARTIN AMIS is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, several collections of stories, and six nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJOHN SUTHERLAND is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at University College London and a regular columnist at The Guardian.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662168363282,"sku":"9780375712524","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4c39e87-a12f-4f7c-a169-a3e8efe686be.jpg?v=1733514662","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/london-fields-introduction-by-john-sutherland-9780375712524","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}