London Fields (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Amis
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Metafiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Crime or criminals, Poverty or poor people, Violence, Television or television broadcasting, 1990’s, Wealth
- Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut, London, England
Amis has made a reputation as a novelist with his shameless and piercing satires of contemporary English life. In LONDON FIELDS, his sixth novel, Amis dissects English society with even more skill and satiric fervor. The novel is narrated by Samson Young, a writer who has traded his New York residence for the London apartment of dramatists Mark Asprey. Young has come to London to make one last attempt at writing a murder mystery before he dies of an unknown disease. LONDON FIELDS may be that mystery.
The central character of the novel is Nicola Six, who is described as being...
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