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Time's Arrow
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446401408
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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Time's Arrow

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1 Aug 2011
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3 Nov 2003
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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: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446401408
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
Categories:

About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
portrait photo of Martin Amis

Also by Martin Amis

Inside Story
The Zone of Interest
Book of Lives
The Rub of Time
The Rachel Papers
Experience
London Fields
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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