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He has contributed to such periodicals as Vanity Fair, The Observer, and The New Statesman. His latest novel will be published by Harmony Books in the fall of 1991. He lives in London.  \n by the same author  \nTHE RACHEL PAPERS  \nDEAD BABIES  \nSUCCESS  \nOTHER PEOPLE: A MYSTERY STORY  \nMONEY  \nEINSTEIN'S MONSTERS  \njournalism  \nI N T E R N A T I O N A L  \nINVASION OF THE SPACE INVADERS THE MORONIC  \nINFERNO AND OTHER VISITS TO AMERICA LONDON  \nFIELDS  \nMARTIN AMIS  \nVintage International  \nVintage Books  \nA Division of Random House, Inc. New York To my father  \nFirst Vintage International Edition, April 1991 Copyright © 1989 by Martin  \nAmis  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books,  \na division of Random House, Inc., New York.  \nOriginally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd. in 1989. First published in the United States by Harmony Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1990.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amis, Martin. London fields /  \nMartin Amis.—1st Vintage international ed.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Vintage international)\"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, Ltd., in 1989. First published in the United States [by Harmony Books.. .in 1989](by Harmony Books.. .in 1989)\"—T.p. verso.  \nISBN 0-679-73034-6  \nI. Title.  \nPR6051 .M5L6 1991 823'.914—dc20 90-50471 CIP  \nAuthor photograph copyright © Jerry Bauer.  \nManufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4  \nContents  \nChapter 1: The Murderer  \nChapter 2: The Murderee  \nChapter 3: The Foil  \nChapter 4: The Dead-End Street  \nChapter 5: The Event Horizon'  \nChapter 6: The Doors of Deception  \nChapter 7: Cheating  \nChapter 8: Going Out With God  \nChapter 9: Doing Real Good  \nChapter 10: The Books in Keith Talent's Apartment  \nChapter 11: The Concordance of Nicola Six's Kisses  \nChapter 12: The Script Followed by Guy Clinch  \nChapter 13: Little Did They Know  \nChapter 14: The Pinching Game  \nChapter 15: Pure Instinct  \nChapter 16: The Third Party  \nChapter 17: Cupid's College  \nChapter 18: This Is Only a Test  \nChapter 19: The Ladies and the Gents  \nChapter 20: Playing Nervous  \nChapter 21: At the Speed of Love  \nChapter 22: Horrorday  \nChapter 23: You're Going Back With Me  \nChapter 24: The Deadline Endpapers  \nNote  \nA word about the title. Several alternatives suggested themselves. For awhile I toyed with Time's Arrow. Then I thought Millennium would be wonderfully bold (a common belief: everything is called Millennium just now) . I even flirted, late at night, with The Death of Love. In the end the most serious contender was The Murderee, which seemed both sinister and deeply catchy. And I wavered and compromised with things like London Fields, or The Murderee: Final Version    \nBut as you see I kept ironic faith with my narrator, who would have been pleased, no doubt, to remind me that there are two kinds of title-two grades, two orders. The first kind of title decides on a name for something that is already there. The second kind of title is present all along: it lives and breathes, or it tries, on every page. My suggestions (and they cost me sleep) are all the first kind of title. London Fields is the second kind of title. So let's call it London Fields. This book is called London Fields. London Fields    \nM. A. London.  \nLONDON FIELDS  \nThis is a true story but I can't believe it's really happening.  \nIt's a murder story, too. I can't believe my luck.  \nAnd a love story (I think), of all strange things, so late in the century, so late in the goddamned day.  \nThis is the story of a murder. It hasn't happened yet. But it will. (It had better.) I know the murderer, I know the murderee. I know the time, I know ","cbCailo5964FoGA6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailo5964FoGA6","pdf",2186169,301,"English","# Contents\n## Chapter 1: The Murderer\n## Chapter 2: The Murderee\n## Chapter 3: The Foil\n## Chapter 4: The Dead-End Street\n## Chapter 5: The Event Horizon\n## Chapter 6: The Doors of Deception\n## Chapter 7: Cheating\n## Chapter 8: Going Out With God\n## Chapter 9: Doing Real Good\n## Chapter 10: The Books in Keith Talent's Apartment\n## Chapter 11: The Concordance of Nicola Six's Kisses\n## Chapter 12: The Script Followed by Guy Clinch\n## Chapter 13: Little Did They Know\n## Chapter 14: The Pinching Game\n## Chapter 15: Pure Instinct\n## Chapter 16: The Third Party\n## Chapter 17: Cupid's College\n## Chapter 18: This Is Only a Test\n## Chapter 19: The Ladies and the Gents\n## Chapter 20: Playing Nervous\n## Chapter 21: At the Speed of Love\n## Chapter 22: Horrorday\n## Chapter 23: You're Going Back With Me\n## Chapter 24: The Deadline Endpapers\n## Note\n## A word about the title","[{\"question\":\"What is the book’s stated premise at the beginning?\",\"answer\":\"It presents itself as a true story the narrator insists is really happening, combining a murder story with a love story while claiming the murder has not yet occurred but will.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narrator describe his knowledge of the plot?\",\"answer\":\"He claims to know the murderer and the person to be murdered, along with the time, place, motive, means, and even who will be the foil destroyed.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the “Note” explain about the title?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the narrator weighing multiple alternative titles before concluding that London Fields is the second kind of title, one that lives across the pages rather than simply naming something already there.\"}]","London Fields - Chapter 1 - The Murderer | PDF",1789989226,464]