Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offence - Softcover

Amis, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140171665 ISBN 13: 9780140171662

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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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" "Extraordinary...Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave." -- "Independent on Sunday" "Amis's most daring and ambitious novel." -- "Daily Telegraph"

Synopsis:

The story of a life lived backwards in time. Its narrator, 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. The novel was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140171665
• ISBN 13: 9780140171662
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 176