London Fields

Reprint. 8vo. Pp. [x], 470. Pictorial wraps.

Inscribed by Author to title-page. Moderate tanning to text-block edges, else Fine.

Author's sixth novel and second in his London trilogy, preceded by Money (1984) and followed by The Information (1995). Set in the drinking dens of West London and narrated by a terminally ill author who's long suffered from writer's block, this multi-layered novel centres on a femme fatale who has a premonition of her own death. But who is manipulating whom in this, Amis's most acclaimed novel, awash with unreliable narrators and characters with few, if any, redeeming features?

Basis for the synonymous 2018 mystery thriller, directed by Mathew Cullen, starring Amber Heard and Billy Bob Thornton, with Johnny Depp in an uncredited cameo. "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