description: 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.
language: English
title: Heavy Water And Other Stories
titlecomplete: Heavy Water And Other Stories
genres: Contemporary, Modern, Novels, Literary Fiction, Anthologies, British Literature, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, Unfinished
ratings_count: 1375
publisher: Audio Literature