Heavy Water And Other Stories
Author: Amis, Martin
ISBN: 9780099272663
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 Jul 1999
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;Cracking prose - highly inventive, inimitably stylish and funnyP#39; Plt;iPgt;The TimesPlt;/iPgt;
In Martin AmisP#39;s short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In P#39;Straight FictionP#39;, everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered P#39;straightP#39; community; in P#39;Career MoveP#39;, screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in P#39;The Janitor of MarsP#39;, a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. In P#39;Let Me Count the TimesP#39; a man has a mad affair with himself. P#39;Heavy WaterP#39;, portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and P#39;State of EnglandP#39; its weird resuscitation. And in P#39;The Coincidence of the ArtsP#39; an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.
ISBN: 9780099272663
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 Jul 1999
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;Cracking prose - highly inventive, inimitably stylish and funnyP#39; Plt;iPgt;The TimesPlt;/iPgt;
In Martin AmisP#39;s short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In P#39;Straight FictionP#39;, everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered P#39;straightP#39; community; in P#39;Career MoveP#39;, screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in P#39;The Janitor of MarsP#39;, a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. In P#39;Let Me Count the TimesP#39; a man has a mad affair with himself. P#39;Heavy WaterP#39;, portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and P#39;State of EnglandP#39; its weird resuscitation. And in P#39;The Coincidence of the ArtsP#39; an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.
