Heavy Water and Other Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Amis
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century and the future
- Setting: The contemporary world
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Future
- Locales: Earth
Among the writers responsible for a revitalization of prose fiction in the British Isles during the last decades of the twentieth century, Martin Amis holds a special place due both to his abilities and to circumstances that intermingle aspects of a semi-celebrity culture with literary achievement. The son of a prominent and influential writer of the mid-twentieth century (Kingsley Amis) and the subject of considerable resentful carping about significant contractual advances, extravagant expenditures (thirty thousand dollars’ worth of dental repairs), and supposed betrayals of...
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