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Six stories and a polemical introductory essay, each of them about nuclear destruction. Weaving and passionate and un-neat, the essay may be best of all, whatever the merits of its arguments (Amis sides with Jonathan Schell, claiming that he is of a haunted generation to which nuclear weapons can't be just some unthought hidden nightmare). But the stories will disappoint: one's a shameless Bellow-clone ("Bujak and the Strong Force"); one a toneless post-Apocalypse fable ("The Little Puppy That Could"); and the one in which Amis' swing seems loosest, most
Six stories and a polemical introductory essay, each of them about nuclear destruction. Weaving and passionate and un-neat, the essay may be best of all, whatever the merits of its arguments (Amis sides with Jonathan Schell, claiming that he is of a haunted generation to which nuclear weapons can't be just some unthought hidden nightmare). But the stories will disappoint: one's a shameless Bellow-clone ("Bujak and the Strong Force"); one a toneless post-Apocalypse fable ("The Little Puppy That Could"); and the one in which Amis' swing seems loosest, most