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Buy this book on-line AMIS**, MARTIN: : HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.CAPE,1998. ISBN 0224051261.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,author SIGNED/dated, 1st edn. FINE/FINE.Due to protected dw/dj,no shelf-wear,no creases,no nicks or tears,no bumped corners,no bumped head or foot of spine/backstrip - immaculate! Author signed: 'Martin Amis' and dated 1.10.98 in black ink to title page,just below his own printed name.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-2321pp [paginated] half-title+ title pages,a Contents list [unpaginated],9 novellas/short stories.
Amis's short stories make his novels look prim. They are also more frankly satirical.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 on 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; 'State of England' 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'.An exceptional copy.See also rja1265.
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