London Fields: Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) (a first printing)

Amis, Martin (introduction by john sutherland)

ISBN 10: 1841593621 / ISBN 13: 9781841593623

Edité par Everyman,uk, 2014

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uk1st.edition.1st.printing/fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: London Fields: Martin Amis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) (a first printing)
• Éditeur: Everyman,uk
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1841593621
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781841593623
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story.

But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man.

London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is write it as it happens.

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.