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London Fields
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Series: Vintage International
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679730346
ISBN13: 9780679730347
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 3 1991
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679730347
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 3 1991
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
NATIONAL 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 (TIME).
Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic. --The New York Times 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. 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.
Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic. --The New York Times 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. 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.
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