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Get this from a library! Heavy water and other stories. [Martin Amis] -- Nine dazzling stories make up this volume of unique and alluring fiction. In "Career Move, " poets are flown first-class to Hollywood in order to take meetings with sandal-shod produces.
5 de ene. de 2011 · The best stories in his new collection Heavy Water and Other Stories--"The State of England," "The Coincidence of the Arts," "What Happened to Me on My Holiday"--attest to the increasing range and resonance of his fiction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the final story in Heavy Water, "What Happened to Me on My Holiday."
- Martin Amis
Synopsis. Desmond Pepperdine, a teen resident of the hopeless borough of Diston Town, shares the home of his late mother with his uncle, the implacably yobbish Lionel Asbo. Despite the latter's attempts to educate his nephew according to his crude and malicious principles (including putting dogs on Tabasco sauce diets and preferring porn over ...
Heavy water and other stories by Martin Amis, 1999, G.K. Hall edition, in English
1 de ene. de 1999 · Heavy Water and Other Stories [Martin Amis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Heavy Water and Other Stories
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.
Heavy Water and Other Stories Martin Amis. Harmony, $21 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-609-60129-7. Amis is an ingenious short story writer, and this collection of tales, three of which have not been seen ...
