Description
| Product ID: | 9780099272663 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Heavy Water And Other Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Martin Amis |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-06-03 |
