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23 de dez. de 2010 · 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.
1 de jan. de 1999 · The best stories in his new collection Heavy Water and Other Stories--"The State of England," "The Coincidence of the Arts," "What Happened to Me on My Holiday"--attest to the increasing range and resonance of his fiction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the final story in Heavy Water, "What Happened to Me on My Holiday."
- Martin Amis
"Heavy Water and Other Stories demonstrates Martin Amis's stylistic brilliance with nine stories that are witty, funny, and sardonic. Frankly entertaining in its satirical take on the human condition in modern times, whole worlds are created - or inverted.
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- Capa Comum
1 de jan. de 1998 · Heavy Water and Other Stories [Amis, Martin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Heavy Water and Other Stories
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation.
14 de mar. de 2000 · 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...
