London Fields, Martin Amis
London Fields, Martin Amis
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London Fields

Author: Martin Amis

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Unabridged: 21 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/01/2010

Synopsis

London Fields is Martin Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium.The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts, or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London—and, indeed, the whole world—seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.

About Martin Amis

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His novels Night Train and London Fields made the New York Times bestsellers list. His memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and two of his books were finalists for the Booker Prize. His novel Money was named by London’s The Guardian as one of the top 100 Best Novels Written in English. He was a professor of creative writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.

About Steven Pacey

Steven Pacey is an actor and Earphones Award-winning narrator. He is a highly decorated stage actor, performing often at the West End Theatre. He has appeared in numerous television roles, including Tarrant in Blake’s 7, and has made over three hundred radio broadcasts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on January 16, 2024

Samson Young, first-person narrator of this Martin Amis novel, is a somewhat jaded, frequently sarcastic and acerbic 40-something intellectual literary writer from, not surprisingly, New York City. But his hard-edged Big Apple voice is absolutely pitch-perfect for the story he is telling, a story in......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 18, 2013

THE BRITISH CLASS SYSTEM At the top there is the Monarchy and the aristocracy. They're all still there, no one has gone away. The 14th Duke of Banffshire and all the scurvy crew. The only good news is - they're not allowed to hunt foxes any more ! Yay - one and a half cheers for democracy! So that's......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on December 09, 2018

A mumbo-jumbo of words trying desperately to congeal into a plot. And failing at it, miserably. A case of when the book is way worse than the bad film. I have a feeling that some promiscuos dictionary had a love affair with the Holy Bible and a bunch of pop-sci lit and quite a bit of erotica and thi......more

Goodreads review by mark on July 08, 2016

Many thanks to ⇨ this review⇦ for providing the inspiration! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Go......more

Goodreads review by Manny on May 16, 2009

This book just has it all. Um. That's not very specific. I suppose I'd better say what "it" is. Well... off the top of my head: an engaging femme fatale, an equally engaging anti-hero - Keith Talent is an asshole's asshole - a dangerous baby, psychic powers, explicit descriptions of sex and competit......more

Quotes

“Adopting a gruff American accent, British actor Steven Pacey captures Sam’s fascination with the characters’ blunders and his barely concealed desire to manipulate their fates. This superb audio treatment of a great novel will appeal to those who enjoy serious fiction that attempts to encompass societal woes without being didactic.” Library Journal (audio review)

“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.” New York Times

“Relentlessly bitter, often brutally funny, hypnotically readable.” Publishers Weekly

“A cunning suspense tale of physical and psychic mayhem…A darkly comic liebestod…Another caustic portrayal of human desires…this time heightened by a more deeply sinister and squalid atmosphere.” Booklist

Awards

  • New York Times bestseller
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