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Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
Amis is not at his best in short stories, but Heavy Water is a competent collection with some entertaining reversals of expectation. In a world in which the majority are gay, a man goes through the problems of coming out as straight; the janitor on Mars tells us the bad news about how the universe works; a screenplay writer scrabbles for small magazine publication while poets hit the big time. Once you have figured out the joke, the stories are predictable, but the wit is in the working out. (Kirkus UK)
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