Heavy Water and Other Stories

Copyright

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MARCH 2000

Copyright © 1998 by Martin Amis

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, in 1998, and subsequently in the United States by Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Harmony Books edition as follows:

Amis, Martin.

Heavy water and other stories / Martin Amis.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-78739-2

Contents: Career move—Denton’s death—State of England—Let me count the times—The coincidence of the arts—Heavy water—The janitor on Mars—Straight fiction—What happened to me on my holiday. I. Title.

PR6051.M5H4 1999

823’.914—dc21 98-21779

Author photograph © Quina Fonseca

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