Heavy Water: Heavy Water: and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701153)

A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation

"Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time." --The New York Times Book Review

"Martin Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him."--The Washington Post

Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the short story form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while poets are the darlings of Hollywood. In "Straight Fiction," the love that dare not speak its name calls out to the hero when he encounters a forbidden object of desire--the opposite sex. And in "State of England," Mal, a former "minder to the superstars," discovers how to live in a country where "class and race and gender were supposedly gone."

Author: Martin Amis
ISBN-10: 037570115X
ISBN-13: 9780375701153
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2000
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.22w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/19/2000 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 04/21/2000 pg. 71