Heavy water

R$ 55,90

Sinopse

Martin Amis's short stories make his novels look prim, They are also more frankly satirical. Whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in 'Career Moves', 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. Largely absent in the novels, the middle classes get a showing in 'Let Me Count the Times', where a man has a mad affair with himself. 'Heavy Water' portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, 'State of England' its weird resuscitation. 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'.

Participantes

Autor: Martin Amis

Autor

MARTIN AMIS

Martin Amis nasceu em Oxford, Inglaterra, em 1949. Foi assistente editorial do Times Literary Supplement, editor literário do New Statesman e
escritor especial do Observer. É colaborador regular do
Independent on Sunday. Suas obras incluem as coletâneas de ensaios
The Moronic Inferno e Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, a
coletânea de contos Einstein's Monsters e os romances The
Rachel Papers (1974, Prêmio Somerset Maugham), Dead
Babies, Success, Other People: A Mystery Story,
London Fields e Time's Arrow.