{"product_id":"heavy-water-and-other-stories","title":"Martin Amis: Heavy Water And Other Stories [1998] hardback","description":"Martin Amis's short stories make his novels look prim. They are also more frankly satirical. Whole world's are created - or invented. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in'Career Moves', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in 'The Janitor on Mars', a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. Largely absent in the novels, the middle classes get a showing in 'Let Me Count the Times', where a man had a mad affair with himself. 'Heavy Water' portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture; 'State of England' portrays its weird resuscitation. And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler. The earliest story, 'Denton's Death', was first published in 1975, but the bulk of the collection can be firmly labelled 'most recent work'.","brand":"Amis, Martin","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48024230560083,"sku":"XV80224051262","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/amis-martin-heavy-water-and-other-stories-xv80224051262-55515655471443.jpg?v=1727291297","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/heavy-water-and-other-stories","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}