- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781446401408
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
Time's Arrow
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home-Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.
- Published: 1 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781446401408
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
About the author
Martin Amis is 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. He lives in New York.
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