“Amis is hilariously eloquent.”
“Martin Amis [has] persuasively established himself as one of his generation’s most ambitious and technically daring writers.”
“Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph than most writers get into complete novels.”
Martin Amis’s books include
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MARCH 2000
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, in 1998, and subsequently in the United States by Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Harmony Books edition as follows:
Amis, Martin.
Heavy water and other stories / Martin Amis.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78739-2
Contents: Career move—Denton’s death—State of England—Let me count the times—The coincidence of the arts—Heavy water—The janitor on Mars—Straight fiction—What happened to me on my holiday. I. Title.
PR6051.M5H4 1999
823’.914—dc21 98-21779
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