Book description
In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted.
In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered
'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their
works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los
Angeles; in 'The Janitor of Mars', a sardonic robot gives us some
strange news about life in the solar system. In 'Let Me Count the Times'
a man has a mad affair with himself. 'Heavy Water', portrays the
exhaustion of working-class culture, and 'State of England' its weird
resuscitation. And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet
becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler. Martin Amis
is the author of thirteen novels, the memoir
Experience
, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most
recently The Second Plane
. He lives in New York.
