false 61038843 239699 18830 0099748614 9780099748618 128 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095465m/18830.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095465s/18830.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18830.London_Fields 3.84 1226 London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?

"A comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a scatological meditation on love and death and nuclear winter...by turns lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times]]> 11337 3.60 11064 1161 1989 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 03:40:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 03:41:25 -0700 2009 London Fields. That's because I absolutely thought I did! I was confusing it with Money, or the Rachel Papers, or something. All I know is that every time I saw it on a bookshelf I checked it off and moved on.

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