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Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence
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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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #46048 in Books
- Published on: 2003-08-13
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
Editorial Reviews
Daily Telegraph
Amis's most daring and ambitious novel
James Wood, Guardian
...a world of pathos and cruel hilarity-but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz
Financial Times
...devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date
