Time's Arrow Or The Nature Of The Offence - Hardcover

Amis, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224030930 ISBN 13: 9780224030939

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1991

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 title

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" (James Wood 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)

Book Description:

'A daring and ambitious novel' (Daily Telegraph) that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0224030930
• ISBN 13: 9780224030939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176