London Fields (1989)
London Fields is a 1989 fiction book written by Martin Amis.
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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What is London Fields about?
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.
When was London Fields published?
London Fields was published in 1989.
Who made London Fields?
London Fields was written by Martin Amis.