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Time's Arrow

Martin Amis

1991138 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991Harmony Books · 138 pages · ENGISBN 9780517585153
  • 1991Jonathan Cape · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780224030939
  • 1992Vintage International · 165 pages · ENGISBN 9780679741701
  • 1992Penguin · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780140171662
  • 2011Astrel · 262 pagesISBN 9785271381867
  • 2016Audible Studios on Brilliance AudioISBN 9781511308571
  • 1991Jonathan CapeISBN 9780224035224
  • 1992Vintage · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780679735724

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly 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. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "A novel that seems to have been written with the term 'tour de force' in mind ... Amis's radical rethinking of time ... brings the abomination of the Holocaust home to the jaded late-20th-century reader in a way that few conventional novels could". Village Voice Literary Supplement. "Splendid ... bold ... gripping from start to finish".--Los Angeles Times Book Review.

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