# Heavy Water And Other Stories

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- Authors: [Martin Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1999-06-03

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Heavy Water And Other Stories

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9927-266-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1999-06-03
- Language: en_GB