{"product_id":"london-fields-martin-amis","title":"London Fields (Martin Amis)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe knows she will be murdered. She believes she has chosen the man who will do it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamson Young arrives in 1980s London ill, broke, and determined to write one last novel. In a decaying city thick with corruption and appetite, he meets Nicola Six, a woman who is certain she will be killed on her thirty-fifth birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicola is convinced the murderer will be one of two men already orbiting her. Keith Talent, volatile and reckless, and Guy Clinch, wealthy and naïve, are drawn into her confidence and her manipulation. She tests them both, as if narrowing the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamson inserts himself into Nicola's circle, observing her calculation and encouraging the drama. Convinced he is documenting fate rather than shaping it, he begins to depend on the murder for the meaning of his book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMartin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Rachel Papers\u003c\/i\u003e (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, \u003ci\u003eExperience\u003c\/i\u003e - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.\n\u003cb\u003eRachel Cusk \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Canada in 1967 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1974. She is the author of nine novels and three works of non-fiction. She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: \u003ci\u003eOutline\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Prize, the Giller Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award. It was also picked by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the top ten books of the year. Its follow-up, \u003ci\u003eTransit\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), was chosen as a book of the year by the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpectator. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. In 2015 her version of Euripides' \u003ci\u003eMedea \u003c\/i\u003ewas put on at the Almeida Theatre with Rupert Goold directing and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 560 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65835219222877,"sku":"K097753031","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9775303100001A.jpg?v=1788724872","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/london-fields-martin-amis","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}