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Heavy water : and other stories

In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the 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." In Heavy Water and Other Stories, Amis astonishes us with the vast range of his talent, establishing that he is one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation.

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  • "Teška voda"
  • "Heavy water"
  • "Zwaar water"
  • "Heavy water and other stories"@it

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  • "In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the 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." In Heavy Water and Other Stories, Amis astonishes us with the vast range of his talent, establishing that he is one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation."@en
  • "From the author of NIGHT TRAIN and LONDON FIELDS, a collection of short stories which includes THE JANITOR ON MARS, CAREER MOVES, LET ME COUNT THE TIMES, HEAVY WATER, STATE OF ENGLAND, THE COINCIDENCE OF THE ARTS and STRAIGHT FICTION, in which everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered straight community."@en
  • "A collection of stories by a British novelist. The story, Let Me Count the Times, is on a husband's efforts to improve his sex life, The Janitor on Mars is science fiction, and in The Coincidence of the Arts a painter cuckolds a writer."@en
  • "A collection of stories by a British novelist. The story, Let Me Count the Times, is on a husband's efforts to improve his sex life, The Janitor on Mars is science fiction, and in The Coincidence of the Arts a painter cuckolds a writer."
  • "Spanish translation of "Heavy water and other stories". A collection of stories by a British novelist. The story, Let Me Count the Times, is on a husband's efforts to improve his sex life, The Janitor on Mars is science fiction, and in The Coincidence of the Arts a painter cuckolds a writer."
  • "Heavy Water and Other Stories is a literal landscape of Martin Amis's fiction. Once you enter Amis's disorienting and hilarious world, you'll never be the same. Every poem will remind you of "Career Move," a story in which poets are flown first-class to Hollywood in order to take meetings with sandal-shod producers, to review sales in the millions, while screenwriters struggle in near-oblivion for publication in obscure, unread journals. Never again will you consider communication with extraterrestial life-forms without conjuring apocalyptic images of evil from "The Janitor on Mars." Witness the world of "Straight Fiction," where everyone is gay except the beleaguered straight community, and our country's "don't ask, don't tell" policy evokes images of Amis's inverted, and outrageous, vision."@en
  • "Humorous and bizarre short stories."
  • "This collection of nine dazzling stories is a literal landscape of critically acclaimed Martin Amis's unique and alluring fiction. This book is the most engaging and complete overview of this kind of fiction today."
  • "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. Witness the world of "Straight Fiction" in which everyone is gay except the beleaguered straight community. Heavy Water and Other Stories is the most engaging overview of Martin Amis's considerable short story talent ever."

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  • "Popular literature"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Short stories, English"@en
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories"
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  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing) - Great Britain - 20th century"@en

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  • "Heavy water : and other stories"
  • "Heavy water : and other stories"@en
  • "Cattive acque"@it
  • "Cattive acque"
  • "Mar gruesa"@es
  • "Mar gruesa"
  • "Heavy Water and Other Stories"
  • "Heavy water, and other stories"
  • "Heavy water and other Stories"
  • "Heavy Water : And Other stories"
  • "Schweres Wasser und andere Erzählungen"
  • "Schweres Wasser : und andere Erzählungen"
  • "Teška voda i druge priče"
  • "Tungt vand og andre historier"@da
  • "Tes̆ka voda i druge pric̆e"
  • "Eau lourde et autres nouvelles"
  • "Heavy water and other stories"
  • "Heavy water and other stories"@en
  • "Agua pesada"
  • "Heavy water"
  • "Zwaar water en andere verhalen"

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