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London Fields

Martin Amis · 1989 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

A dying American writer arrives in a millennial London and finds a story already assembled and waiting: a woman who knows the date and the manner of her own death and is auditioning the man who will bring it about. Her candidates are a cheating darts player off the estates and a rich, guileless banker with a monstrous baby. The middle book of the London trilogy, between Money and The Information.

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Genre
Crime / NoirSatirePsychological
Theme
Death & MortalityBetrayalClass & InequalityObsessionAppearance vs Reality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Femme FataleAnti-HeroTricksterEveryman
Plot structure
Unreliable NarratorMetafictionIronic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The CityThe Game / CardsThe Screen
Conflict
vs Personvs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
SatiricalIronicNoirComic
Culture / tradition
English

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