Time's Arrow by Amis, Martin

Time's Arrow

In this icy, knife's-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of...
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Author: Martin Amis
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Time's Arrow by Amis, Martin

Time's Arrow

$24.58

Time's Arrow

$24.58
Author: Martin Amis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In this icy, knife's-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis ("at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best" --Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction - From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest

"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art." --Newsday

Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves "out of blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America.

As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel's inevitable logic. 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.



Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/29/1992
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.15w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780679735724


Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 08/11/2008 pg. 12
New Yorker (The) 09/29/2014 pg. 83

About the Author
MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels--among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, and Night Train--along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.

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