London Fields (1989), Martin Amis's longest work, describes the encounters between three main characters in London in 1999, as a climate disaster approaches.
The characters have typically Amisian names and broad caricatured qualities: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts; Nicola Six, a femme fatale who is determined to be murdered; and upper-middle-class Guy Clinch, 'the fool, the foil, the poor foal' who is destined to come between the other two.
The book was reportedly omitted from the Booker Prize shortlist in its year of publication, 1989, because of panel members protesting against its alleged misogyny.
In my post of last April the 13th I mentioned how Martin Amis "London Fields" is one of my favorite book of all time.
Michael Winterbottom is now adapting the book into a film that should be released in 2010.
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