Time's Arrow

martin amis

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 in time toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionnovelsliteratureliterary fictionholocaustfantasycontemporaryhistoricalbritish literature

165 pages, Paperback

First published September 26,1991

Literary awards

booker prize,

Places

new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Published: October 1, 1992 by Vintage
ISBN: 9780679735724
ASIN: 0679735720
Language: English

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Odilo Unverdorben

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Reverend Nicholas Kreditor

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About the author

martin amis

Martin Amis was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works included the novels Money, London Fields and The Information.

The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."

Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness."