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      Heavy Water and Other Stories

      by Martin Amis
      Published
      Jun 1999
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      240
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      A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation

      "Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time." —The New York Times Book Review

      "Martin Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him."—The Washington Post

      Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the short story form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while poets are the darlings of Hollywood. In "Straight Fiction," the love that dare not speak its name calls out to the hero when he encounters a forbidden object of desire—the opposite sex. And in "State of England," Mal, a former "minder to the superstars," discovers how to live in a country where "class and race and gender were supposedly gone."

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      First Edition Jun 1999 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099272663 ISBN10 0099272660
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      Mar 2000 Vintage ISBN13 9780375701153 ISBN10 037570115X
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      Feb 2026 Picador ISBN13 9781250414878 ISBN10 1250414873
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      Jan 1999 Harmony ISBN13 9780609601297 ISBN10 0609601296
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      Jan 1999 Knopf (Canada) ISBN13 9780676971446 ISBN10 067697144X
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      Apr 1999 Vintage ISBN13 9780375706509 ISBN10 037570650X
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      Dec 2010 Vintage ISBN13 9781446401859 ISBN10 1446401855
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      Jan 2011 Knopf ISBN13 9780307787392 ISBN10 0307787397
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      Jan 2011 Vintage ISBN10 B004HFRMEG
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      Feb 1999 Audio Literature ISBN13 9780787119126 ISBN10 0787119121
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      Dec 1999 Phoenix Books ISBN10 B00005468L
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      May 1999 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780783886213 ISBN10 0783886217
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