{"product_id":"heavy-water-and-other-stories-9780375701153","title":"Heavy Water: and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Amis applies his comic timing, his perfect pitch and his curatorial eye to some of the burning issues of our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Martin Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARTIN AMIS \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of 15 novels--among them \u003ci\u003eZone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Night Train\u003c\/i\u003e--along with the memoir \u003ci\u003eExperience, \u003c\/i\u003e the novelized self-portrait \u003ci\u003eInside Story\u003c\/i\u003e, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923976130834,"sku":"9780375701153","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce6aa275-346f-40b4-9d7b-175f2e41c9ed.jpg?v=1772013323","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heavy-water-and-other-stories-9780375701153","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}