Heavy Water and Other Stories
- Heavy Water and Other Stories
"Heavy Water and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories by Martin Amis. It was first published in 1998 by Jonathan Cape.
It includes "Denton's Death" and "Let Me Count the Times" which comprised "Two Stories" published in 1994. [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/martin-amis/two-stories.htm]
Stories
* "Career Move" (first published in "The New Yorker" in 1992) in which the literary world is inverted; screenplay writers such as Alistair struggle to have their work published in small magazines, whilst poets such as Luke are courted by publishing conglomerates and fly first-class around the world. ( [http://literae.eloyed.com/careermove1.htm online text] )
* "Denton's Death" ("Encounter", 1976) in which the protagonist sits alone in his squalid room and ponders his forthcoming assassination at the hands of three hired killers using a 'machine'. ( [http://www.martinamisweb.com/commentary_files/dentons_death.pdf online text] )
* "State of England" ("The New Yorker", 1986) set at a fee-paying school, the narrator using a mobile phone to communicate with his estranged wife and refecting on his up and down career as a bouncer.
* "Let me Count the Times" ("Granta", 1981) in which a man has a obsessive and increasingly intense affair with himself and his imagination which gradually takes over from his relationship with his wife.
* "The Coincidence of the Arts" (1997) in which an English Baronet becomes entangled with an american chess hustler and aspiring novelist and has an unexpected affair with a silent Afro-Caribbean woman.
* "Heavy Water" ("New Statesman", 1978) in which a working-class woman takes her mentally handicapped son on a mediterranean cruise.
* "The Janitor on Mars" (1997) in which a robot makes contact from Mars and reveals the shocking truth of mankinds place in the Universe.
* "Straight Fiction" ("Esquire", 1995) in which everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered though increasingly vocal 'straight' community.
* "What Happened to me on Holiday" ("The New Yorker", 1997) in which death rears its head in the life of a young boy.
External links
[http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/amism/heavy.htm The Complete Review]
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