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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.
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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" (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)
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'A daring and ambitious novel' (Daily Telegraph) that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0224030930
- ISBN 13 9780224030939
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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