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Time´s Arrow: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
Martin Amis
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Description for Time´s Arrow: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
Paperback. The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards.
Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America.
From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the boat back to war-torn Europe, Friendly carries with him a secret. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly’s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor’s most ambitious project yet – the final solution.
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'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099455356
SKU
V9780099455356
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About Martin Amis
Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.
Reviews for Time´s Arrow: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz
Guardian
The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date
Financial Times
Extraordinary - ... Read more
Guardian
The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date
Financial Times
Extraordinary - ... Read more