{"product_id":"london-fields-introduction-by-john-sutherland-hardcover","title":"London Fields: Introduction by John Sutherland - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Amis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Sutherland\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARTIN AMIS is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, several collections of stories, and six nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJOHN SUTHERLAND is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at University College London and a regular columnist at The Guardian.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 552\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755634884896,"sku":"9780375712524","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f4fcc4239ee449dcafb6c460712159eb.webp?v=1780064261","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/london-fields-introduction-by-john-sutherland-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}