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Heavy Water And Other Stories Martin Amis

Heavy Water And Other Stories By Martin Amis

Heavy Water And Other Stories by Martin Amis


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Summary

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.

Heavy Water And Other Stories Summary

Heavy Water And Other Stories by Martin Amis

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in 'The Janitor of Mars', a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. In 'Let Me Count the Times' a man has a mad affair with himself. 'Heavy Water', portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and 'State of England' its weird resuscitation. And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.

Heavy Water And Other Stories Reviews

"Brilliant - a remarkable feat of rhetorical beauty and overwhelming truth... A terrific collection - brilliantly varied, constantly surprising chips of a superb imagination" * Mail on Sunday *
"Amis is immaculate as a comic stylist - irresistible" * Daily Telegraph *
"This volume is essential reading for anyone remotely interested in where we are and how we got here" * Sunday Times *
"Comic inversions, fantastical celebrations and ripe satire - of popular culture, personal relationships, even the space-time continuum - all jostle in these pages... Simply ace" * Esquire *
"Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time" * New York Times Book Review *

About Martin Amis

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

Additional information

GOR003026175
9780099272663
0099272660
Heavy Water And Other Stories by Martin Amis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1999-06-03
240
N/A
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