Time's Arrow
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991
$28.75
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2003
Summary
A new reissue series of Martin Amis’s novels to mark his 70th birthday.
T.D. 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 con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099455356 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099455358 |
| Author: | Martin Amis |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
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 - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave * Independent on Sunday *
An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best * Time Out *
Amis’s most daring and ambitious novel * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
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.
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