Time's Arrow
  • Published: 3 November 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099455356
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $35.00
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Time's Arrow

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1991

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A new reissue series of Martin Amis's novels to mark his 70th birthday

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

  • Published: 3 November 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099455356
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was 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. Amis died in May 2023.

portrait photo of Martin Amis

Also by Martin Amis

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The Zone of Interest
The Rub of Time
The Rachel Papers
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Praise for Time's Arrow

An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best

Time Out

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

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