Heavy Water And Other Stories

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. 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.

• | Author: Martin Amis
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 03, 1999
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099272663
• | ISBN-10: 0099272660