This dark, funny and relentlessly paced Martin Amis novel explores contemporary culture through a gallery of unique - and often unlovely - characters
Time's Arrow
Written by Martin Amis
- Shortlisted
- The Booker Prize 1991
- Published by Jonathan Cape
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Martin Amis’ inventive investigation of a war criminal, which reverses time as one man’s life races backward towards an appalling past
In Time’s Arrow events occur in a reverse chronology, as time races into the past and the main character becomes younger and younger. The book tells the story of an ex-Nazi, Dr Tod T. Friendly. Friendly is possessed of two separate voices, one running backward from his death, the other running forward, in a vain attempt to flee his inescapable past.
Martin Amis
Martin Amis was the author of 14 novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction
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