Editions

Time's Arrow

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099455356

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 121g

  • RRP: £9.99

Time's Arrow

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

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099455356

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 8mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 121g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "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

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About the Author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.

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