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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 13/08/2003
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ISBN: 9780099455356
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Length: 144 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm
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Weight: 121g
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RRP: £9.99
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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 13/08/2003
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ISBN: 9780099455356
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Length: 144 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm
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Weight: 121g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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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
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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
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Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave
Independent on Sunday
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An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best
Time Out
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Amis's most daring and ambitious novel
Daily Telegraph
