Buy this book on-line AMIS**, MARTIN: : HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES.**LONDON.CAPE,1998. ISBN 0224051261.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour, scenic,photographic illustrated dw/dj - photograpgh repeated to both covers - with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges,no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and very clean - and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips. Bright,clean,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-231pp [paginated] half-title+title pages,contents list [all 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 invented.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 resucitation.
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'.See also rja713.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour scenic,photographic illustrated dw/dj - photograpgh repeated to both covers - with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges,no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge minisculely thumbed, but generally clean else;fore-edges clean,
contents bright,tight and very clean - and no dog-ear reading creases to corner tips.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,1st edn,1-231pp (paginated) half-title+title pages,contents list [all 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 invented.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 resucitation.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'.See also rja713.
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